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This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row but later found to be wrongly convicted. Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously. [1]
Brunner is one of 40 Ohioans who have been exonerated through the efforts of the Ohio Innocence Project, based at the University of Cincinnati School of Law. According to the project's website ...
Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in 1977. They were imprisoned for decades before each of the three was exonerated in late 2014. Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman were released that year. (Ronnie Bridgeman, by then known as Kwame Ajamu, had been paroled in 2003 after 28 years in prison, and had been successful in his new life.) [2]
They were later convicted and sentenced to death, although Brown's death sentence was soon commuted to life imprisonment due to his young age excluding him from the death penalty. McCollum spent 31 years on death row, and Brown spent 31 years between death row and prison, before a 2014 DNA test exonerated both men and implicated another man ...
A mentally ill man, who had been on Ohio’s death row for two decades, saw his death sentence thrown out Monday under a recent state law that says people who have a serious mental illness are ...
A review of Ohio's death row in wake of Missouri execution Tuesday shows 114 inmates, including 8 from Franklin County and 2 or those have dates set. Ohio hasn't executed anyone on death row since ...
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county (as of January 15, 2025) An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them ...
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