Sentences with phrase «death row exonerations»

That number — 4.1 % to be exact — comes from a new analysis of more than 3 decades of data on death sentences and death row exonerations across the United States.

Only about 13 percent of death row exonerations have resulted from DNA testing.

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The number of false convictions among the death - sentenced has been particularly hard to estimate, Gross says, because many prisoners who are on death row are eventually moved off of it but remain in prison, which often reduces their chances of exoneration.

The researchers also note that a 4.1 percent rate of false conviction is conservative, given that separate calculations gauging the accuracy of the assumptions that took an even more conservative stance — assuming that people who were executed had zero chance of false conviction and that the chances of exoneration after retrial would be twice that of people on death row — would still produce a larger figure than their 4.1 percent estimate.