Innocence
Additional Resources
DPIC Resources
Reports
- DPIC Special Report: The Innocence Epidemic (2021)
- Innocence and the Crisis in the American Death Penalty (2004)
- Innocence and the Death Penalty: The Increasing Danger of Executing the Innocent (1997)
- Innocence and the Death Penalty: Assessing the Danger of Mistaken Executions (1993)
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)
- Discussions With DPIC — “Unrequited Innocence” with Rob Warden and John Seasly (2019)
- Discussions With DPIC — Carine Williams of the Innocence Project Discusses Death Penalty, Innocence, and ‘the Function of Freedom’ (2021)
- Discussion With DPIC — KKirk Bloodsworth, Thirty Years After His Exoneration (2023)
Archival DPIC Content
- Innocence News and Developments: 2004
- Innocence News and Developments: 2003
- Innocence News and Developments: 2002
Articles and Other Publications
- Phillip Morris, Sentenced to Death, but Innocent: These Are Stories of Justice Gone Wrong, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2021
- That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters
- The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Sister Helen Prejean
- False Justice: Eight Myths That Convict the Innocent by Jim Petro and Nancy Petro
- Last Words from Death Row: The Walls Unit by Norma Herrera
- Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial by Edward F. Connors
- Gross SR et al. “Rate of false conviction of criminal defendants who are sentenced to death.” Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. (2014).
- Austin Sarat et al. “Innocence is Not Enough: The Public Life of Death Row Exonerations,” British Journal of American Legal Studies, Volume 9(2) (2020).
- Samantha K. Brooks and Neil Greenburg, “Psychological impact of being wrongfully accused of criminal offences: A systematic literature review,” Med Sci Law. 2021 Jan; 61(1): 44–54.
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.
For information about exonerations in the United States, visit The National Registry of Exonerations.
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