2,133 Years Lost for the Wrongly Convicted by National Geographic Magazine
During the past five decades 182 former death-row prisoners, an average of four people a year, have been exonerated of all charges related to their death sentences. Advances such as the use of DNA testing have led to a small decrease in wrongful convictions but have not been sufficient to overcome official misconduct and human error.
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CreditsKELSEY NOWAKOWSKI, researcher
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