{"id":623,"date":"2014-02-10T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T21:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2014-02-10T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T05:22:21","slug":"registry-records-highest-number-exonerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Registry Records Highest Number of Criminal Exonerations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, there were a record number of exonerations in the United States, according to a report<\/a> released last week by the National Registry of Exonerations.<\/p>\n

The Registry recorded 87 exonerations that occurred in 2013. The
\nnext highest total was in 2009, with 83 known exonerations, and the difference is bound to grow\u00a0as we learn about additional exonerations that occurred in 2013.1, according to the Registry.<\/p>\n

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Dewey Jones Exonerated for Murder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among those exonerated are Dewey Jones for a 1993 murder in Akron, Ohio, according to the Registry.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Registry was started in May 2012, as a joint project of the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ten states with the most exonerations in 2013 were, in order: Texas, Illinois, New York,<\/span>Washington, California, Michigan, Missouri, Connecticut, Georgia, and Virginia, according to the Registry.<\/p>\n

Since keeping track of exonerations, the Registry now lists\u00a01,304 exonerations, from 1989 to February 3, 2014.<\/p>\n

The 87 known exonerations in 2013 reflect several long term trends in exonerations in America, according to the Registry report.<\/p>\n

Here are other findings from the Registry report:<\/p>\n