Innocence

Additional Resources

DPIC Resources

Reports

Podcasts

On the Issues — Episode 5: Innocence (2009)
Discussions With DPIC — Innocence and Prosecutorial Misconduct, with Exoneree Isaiah McCoy and Lawyers Michael Wiseman and Herbert Mondros (2017)
Discussions With DPIC — Columnist Nicholas Kristof on The Framing of Kevin Cooper (2018)

Archival DPIC Content

Related Websites

To contact individuals who have been exonerated from death row, visit Witness to Innocence.

For Information about Innocence Projects across the country, visit The Innocence Project.

Other Resources

United States v. Quinones, innocence concerns and the constitutionality of the death penalty

List of Exonerations in German: Unschuldige und ihre Faelle in Kuerze

In This Section

DPIC Special Reports

DPIC Special Report: The Innocence Epidemic

Evangelical Pastor Rich Nathan Discusses How a “Culture of Life” Informs His Opposition to the Death Penalty

Innocence

DPIC In-Depth Reports

Innocence and the Crisis in the American Death Penalty

Alabama Pardons Scottsboro Boys

On November 21, 2013, the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted to posthumously pardon Charles Weems, Andy Wright, and Haywood Patterson, three of the nine "Scottsboro Boys," a group of black teenagers who were charged in 1931 of raping two white women.

70 Years Later, Florida Posthumously Pardons the “Groveland Four”

On January 11, 2019, the Florida Clemency Board unanimously granted posthumous pardons to the “Groveland Four,” four young African-American men falsely accused of raping a young white woman in Lake County, Florida in 1949. During the racist hysteria following the accusation, white mobs burned down black residences, a massive white posse lynched a black suspect, all-white juries condemned two innocent men to death and an innocent teen to a life sentence, and a racist sheriff murdered one of the men and attempted to kill another.