2022 Report: Race and Wrongful Convictions
The National Registry of Exonerations has released a new report, Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States 2022, showing that:
Black people account for 53% of exonerations
Black people are 7 times more likely than white people to be falsely convicted of serious crimes and spend longer in prison before exoneration
Innocent Black people are about 7 1/2 times more likely to be convicted of murder than innocent white people
The convictions that led to murder exonerations of Black defendants were almost 50% more likely to include misconduct by police officers than murder exonerations of white defendants