Wrongful convictions aren’t random.

This story needs JavaScript. The short version: Black Americans are 13.6% of the U.S. population but 53% of the 3,200 exonerations in the National Registry of Exonerations as of August 2022. The registry’s 2022 report estimates innocent Black Americans are about 7.5 times as likely as innocent white Americans to be convicted of murder. Verdict: Proof.

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