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