About 250 people in total are convicted of a further serious offence each year, although that is not included in these statistics.
Immigration authorities announced last month that they had deported a record number of immigrants over the previous 12 months; more than 195,700 of the deportees, or about half of the total, were convicted criminals.
Of those 115 innocent defendants who had been sentenced to death, 29, a quarter of the total, were convicted after another person who was himself a suspect in the murder gave a confession that also implicated the innocent defendant.
Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, who uses the penname Zunar, faces nine charges in total and if convicted is almost certain to spend the next four decades in jail.
Of the total, two were convicted of involvement with a foreign terrorist organisation and only one remains in prison, according to the State Department.
A total of 5,270 convicted sex offenders were classified as of March 31 as having the potential to repeat their offenses, requiring some form of community notification under Megan's Law, the first annual report on the subject said.
Given that the sum total of priests convicted of abuse in England and Wales in the past 50 years is less than half of one per cent, there is a question of proportion here: the ordained are no more likely to commit abuse than people of any other vocation or profession.
Mr. Burrick faces up to 10 years in prison and fines totaling $500,000 if convicted of the charges.
Life, sure; but what of investments? Quattrone faces a maximum term in the slammer of 25 years, and fines totaling $750,000, if convicted of all the charges against him.
In total, British authorities successfully convicted 11 people for insider dealing in 2011, with an additional 16 people awaiting trials, the F.S.A. said in a statement.
