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  2. List of exonerated death row inmates - Wikipedia

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    Posthumous pardons for individuals executed before 1950. Inmates who were given life sentences when their country, province or state abolished the death penalty. People who were threatened with death and never jailed. People who were jailed by extralegal groups or courts, for example, as often occurs in cases of sentences of stoning.

  3. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Laguna Beach, California: Death Executed No Thompson was convicted and executed for the rape and murder of Ginger Fleischli, a crime for which he is widely believed to be innocent. [129] [130] [131] He was mainly convicted on the evidence of two notorious informants who claimed Thompson had admitted committing the crime in jail. The prosecution ...

  4. Wrongful execution - Wikipedia

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    Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment often cite cases of wrongful execution as arguments, while proponents argue that innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.

  5. Man wrongly-convicted of murder released from prison ... - AOL

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    Andrew Leander Wilson is finally free. The California man spent 32 years behind bars for the 1984 murder of 21-year-old Christopher Hanson, which he did not commit.. According to INSIDE EDITION ...

  6. Prosecutors: Man wrongly convicted of 1978 slaying - AOL

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    VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- A 69-year-old man who has spent 36 years behind bars for murder was wrongly convicted and could be released after a court hearing next week, prosecutors in Southern ...

  7. Craig Coley - Wikipedia

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    Craig Richard Coley (born June 7, 1947 in Los Angeles County, California) [1] is an American man who was wrongfully convicted of a double murder in Simi Valley, California, and spent 39 years in prison. He was pardoned by the governor of California in 2017 because DNA testing, not available at his original trial, did not support his conviction. [2]

  8. Two men walk free from prison decades after being wrongfully ...

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    In 2021, when Mr Solorio was around the age of 42 and spending over two decades in prison, his attorney, Ellen Eggers, submitted an innocence claim to the CIU and the Northern California Innocence ...

  9. List of people executed in California - Wikipedia

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    Georgia, the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [1] The first 2 executions were by gas inhalation; all subsequent executions were by lethal injection, [2] following a 1996 federal court (9th Circuit) ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional. [3]