From Death Row to Freedom: 185 Americans since 1972 have avoided executions because they've been shown to be innocent.

For every 8.3 executions in the United States, one innocent person on death row has been exonerated.

Bad Behavior

It's often deliberately misleading behavior by officials or witnesses that puts innocent people on death row.

Exonerations by Race Native American: 0.5% Latino: 8.7% White: 36.2% Black: 53.5% Other: 1.1% Note: Table made from pie chart. 2021's First Death Row Exoneration

Eddie Lee Howard was the first death row inmate to be exonerated in 2021, just days into the new year on January 8.

Howard served 26 years on death row in Mississippi. He was convicted using controversial and now-debunked bite mark evidence. Mississippi dentist Michael West testified that bite marks he found on the victim's body matched Howard's teeth. That evidence is no longer...