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873 Total number of exonerations in the U.S.
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816 Number who were men
57 … women
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50% Amount who were black
38% … white
11% … Latino
2% … Native American or Asian
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87% Amount who were convicted by a jury at trial
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10,000 Minimum number of years defendants as a group spent in prison
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101 Number of murder exonerees who had been sentenced to death
Sources National Registry of Exonerations, a project of University of Michigan law school and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law
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