The
number of exonerations in the United States of those wrongly convicted
of a crime increased to a record 87 during 2013, and of that number,
nearly one in five had initially pleaded guilty to charges filed against
them, according to a report to be released on Tuesday as part of a
project led by two university law schools.
Nearly
half of the exonerations — 40 — were based on murder convictions,
including that of a man wrongly convicted and subsequently sentenced to
death in the fatal stabbing of a fellow inmate in a Missouri prison in
1983, according to the report
by the National Registry of Exonerations. The registry is a joint
program of the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on
Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law.
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