Exonerations in the United States, 1989 – 2012 Report by the National Registry of Exonerations

First, please see Mark Godsey’s post from yesterday in which he introduces this report:   https://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2012/05/20/breaking-news-registry-unveiled-today-details-2000-wrongful-convictions-in-u-s-since-1989/

Here is the full text of the report:     exonerations_us_1989_2012_full_report

The report is lengthy (108 pages), and is a RICH source of wrongful conviction data.  And since I am a “data junkie”, I thought I’d post what I think are probably the two most telling of the tables in the report, so you don’t have to go looking for them – Table 4 and Table 13.

And please keep this in mind.  The report and it’s data are only for recognized exonerations, and only the ones the authors could find.  The US justice system makes an “exoneration” an incredibly difficult thing to achieve.  The report does not, and cannot, include all of the wrongfully convicted people who are still in prison or who have served a sentence and been released.