The National
Registry of
Exonerations
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Exonerations by State
Newly Published Exonerations
At 4:08 p.m. on December 28, 2008, police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, responded to a shooting at a house on West Oakdale Street in North Philadelphia. Inside the house, officers found Ernest…
Just after 5 a.m. on November 12, 2002, Jesus Gonzalez and John Commisky were shot to death inside a house in Corpus Christi, Texas. Both men were 19 years old, and investigators said they were…
In September 2025, nearly 34 years after he was convicted of a rape that he did not commit, 56-year-old William Jamerson was exonerated in Tulsa, Oklahoma. DNA testing of evidence that prosecutors…
At about 1:40 p.m. on July 7, 1997, 27-year-old Domingo Mejia, the driver of a “jitney” cab, was fatally shot in his cab, which crashed into a fence on Hewes Street near Wakullah Street in the…
At about 9:30 a.m. on March 3, 2017, Tamara Patrick had just gotten out of the shower when she heard a thud and a moan coming from her bedroom at her house in Frankfort, Kentucky. Patrick found her…
At about 4 p.m., on December 10, 1974, 15-year-old Paul Sulfaro was working at the counter of his father’s shoe repair business located inside Blair’s Market on Palmer Street in the Roxbury…
On September 27, 1981, two teenagers collecting firewood stumbled upon the decomposed remains of Thomas Kinser in a sinkhole in the woods near State College, Pennsylvania. Kinser had been shot in the…
On the evening of April 10, 1950, 46-year-old Robert Snead Williams, Jr. was driving through Washington, D.C. on his way home from work when he was pulled over near American University by a police…
EVERY STORY COUNTS.
The Registry is a living archive of injustice. We collect, analyze, and publish comprehensive information on all known exonerations of criminal defendants in the United States.
We study the frequency and distribution of exonerations, and the causes, costs, and consequences of wrongful convictions. We make our data, research, and stories broadly accessible. Our goal is to be a resource for those who want to improve the criminal legal system and make it more accountable.
The Registry is a project of the Michigan State University College of Law, the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at the University of California—Irvine, and the University of Michigan Law School.
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Reports
In the Press
Injustice WatchFake Science, Faulty Methods, Misleading testimony (8/14/2025)
AFRO NewsMaryland public defender boosts exoneration efforts with 2nd innocence clinic at Maryland Carey School of Law (8/1/25)
WBURAdvocates renew push to raise compensation cap for those wrongfully convicted (8/1/25)