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28 paź 2024 · The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973, at least 200 people who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated.
- Executed But Possibly Innocent
There is no way to tell how many of the 1603 people executed...
- Description of Innocence Cases
Mulero pled guilty on September 27, 1993, and Lynch withdrew...
- Innocence by the Numbers
70 Years Later, Florida Posthumously Pardons the “ Groveland...
- Posthumous Pardons
In 1949, seven young Black men were accused of the rape and...
- Exonerations by Race
70 Years Later, Florida Posthumously Pardons the “ Groveland...
- Partial Innocence
Johnny Lee Gates Georgia — Conviction: 1977, Released: 2020....
- Sentence Commuted
Kevin Keith Ohio Conviction 1995, Commuted to Life: 2010....
- Additional Resources
Innocence and the Crisis in the American Death Penalty...
- Executed But Possibly Innocent
Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation on March 9, 2011, to abolish the death penalty in Illinois. All fifteen death row inmates in the state had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment without parole.
11 sty 2023 · The commutations paved the way for Illinois’ eventual abolition of the death penalty in 2011, but the effects of the state’s death penalty system have lingered. In 2022, Marilyn Mulero became the 16th former death-row prisoner to be exonerated from Cook County, Illinois, which has had more death-row exonerations than any other U.S. county.
7 maj 2021 · Seven states have followed in Illinois’ wake; a decade later, 23 states and the District of Columbia do not impose the death penalty. In the aftermath of 13 federal executions during President Donald Trump’s final months in office, President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland have indicated that they support reinstating the ...
Notable Exonerations. Anthony Porter: Convicted in 1983 for a double murder committed near a pool on Chicago’s South Side, Porter spent nearly 17 years on Illinois’s death row for a crime he did not commit, all the while maintaining his innocence.
I. Cavalcade of Exonerations. The first of what would become a cavalcade of post-Furman Illinois death row exonerations occurred in 1987 when a young prosecutor, Michael Falconer, came forward with exculpatory evidence that exonerated two condemned Chicagoans, Perry Cobb and Darby Tillis.
17 lis 2023 · A total of 16 prisoners were received under sentence of death in 2021, one more than was reported in 2020. Twenty states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) removed a total of 84 prisoners from under sentence of death by means other than execution in 2021.
