Death Row Exoneration Count: 139

Since 1973, 139 people have been exonerated from death row in the United States.

Visit the Death Penalty Informaiton Center for the latest information on the cases of the exonerated.

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 Virginia has exonerated one person, Earl Washington, Jr., out of over 100 executed. For Virginia not to have executed an innocent person, the Commonwealth would have to get it right 10 times more often than the national average. An Expendable Man , Margaret Edd's biography of this case demonstrates how alarmingly easy it is to get confessions from innocent people and then sentence them to death.

Read the executive pardon petition prepared by his defense attorneys.

Active Image  Visit Witness to Innocence to hear the stories of men wrongfully sentenced to death.

 

 


 

  

 
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