Black Americans are 7x more likely than white people to be falsely convicted of serious crimes — and spend longer in prison before exoneration, a new report shows.
, examined defendants who were exonerated after serving at least part of a sentence — sometimes spending decades in prison.Black people represent 13.6% of the American population, but account for 53% of 3,200 exonerations in the registry as of August 8, 2022, according to the report.
The convictions that led to murder exonerations of Black defendants were almost 50% more likely to include misconduct by police officers.The number of murder exonerations is increasing. Many of the recent exonerees are Black murder defendants who spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit.
"There is no one explanation for the heavy concentration of Black defendants among those convicted of crimes they did not commit."
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