According to decades of National Registry of Exonerations data, 59percentt of people exonerated after being convicted of sexual assault cases are black, even as blacks make up only 13percentt of the overall population.
The National Registry of Exonerations had collected data on 1,810 exonerations in the United States since 1989 as of June 7 , 2016
Amid growing awareness of the scope of the problem, the National Registry of Exonerations has gathered data on wrongful convictions going back to 1989, logging nearly two thousand exonerations, and the number is only a fraction of the convictions that are now being contested on the ground of innocence.
I edit the National Registry of Exonerations, which compiles stories and data about people who were convicted of crimes in the United States and later exonerated.
The group, which hopes to continue its efforts around the country, has kept data on DNA exonerations in the US since 1989.
PAGE 22 EXONERATING WITHOUT DNA DATA The proliferation of exonerations due to DNA evidence has made it harder for prisoners to prove their innocence in the larger number of cases that do not involve such evidence.
About 300 people have been exonerated in New York, dating back to the 1980s, and official misconduct was listed as a contributing factor in many of the cases, according to data in the National Registry of 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.
The registry has tracked exonerations since 1989, recording a total of 1,733, and the data shows clear patterns in some counties.
Sean Kane, the president of Safety Research and Strategies, a Massachusetts consulting firm that is working with lawyers suing Toyota, said data recorders that did not show braking were "far from an exoneration of Toyota and its electronics".
