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156,496 Cases Currently Referenced in the Innocents Database**
(1-7-2022) There are cases from 122 countries. 65,362 cases are from the United States 106,607 cases are from a country other than the U.S. 640 people were sentenced to death. 1.321 people were sentenced to life in prison. 1,876 people were convicted of a homicide related crime. 1,237 people were convicted of a sexual assault related crime. 94,241 people were posthumously exonerated by a court or a pardon U.S. Cases 4,483 = Males 462 = Females 6 = Other (Business, etc.) 59,471 = Unknown sex 1,340 = Homicide cases 99 = Homicide & Sexual Assault cases 439 = Sexual Assault/Rape cases 301 = Child Sexual Assault/Sex Abuse cases 269 = Robbery/Theft/Burglary/Extortion cases 170 - Assault cases 60,776 = Drug cases 194 = Fraud/Forgery/Embezzelment/Bribery cases 24 = Child Abuse/Assault cases 230 = Violent Other cases 580 = Non-violent Other cases U.S. cases Before 1989 940 = Total 850 = Males 72 = Females 4 = Other (Businesses, etc.) 14 = Unknown sex 432 = Homicide cases 5 = Homicide & Sexual Assault cases 42 = Sexual Assault/Rape cases 4 = Child Sexual Assault/Sex Abuse cases 117 = Robbery/Theft/Burglary/Extortion cases 9 - Assault cases 19 = Drug cases 45 = Fraud/Forgery/Embezzelment/Bribery cases 0 = Child Abuse/Assault cases 52 = Violent Other cases 215 = Non-violent Other cases Non-U.S. Cases 3,275 = Males 392 = Females 11 = Business 102,929 = Unknown sex 744 = Homicide cases 41 = Homicide & Sexual Assault cases 243 = Sexual Assault/Rape cases 96 = Child Sexual Assault/Sex Abuse cases 177 = Robbery/Theft/Burglary/Extortion cases 161 - Assault cases 118 = Drug cases 175 = Fraud/Forgery/Embezzelment/Bribery cases 7 = Child Abuse/Assault cases 688 = Violent Other cases 103,914 = Non-violent Other cases Non-U.S. cases Before 1989 245 = Total 228 = Males 14= Females 2 = Other (Businesses, etc.) 1 = Unknown sex 58 = Homicide cases 1 = Homicide & Sexual Assault cases 7 = Sexual Assault/Rape cases 2 = Child Sexual Assault/Sex Abuse cases 52 = Robbery/Theft/Burglary/Extortion cases 14 = Assault cases 4 = Drug cases 7 = Fraud/Forgery/Embezzelment/Bribery cases 0 = Child Abuse/Assault cases 48 = Violent Other cases 50 = Non-violent Other cases **
Note: To make the database smaller and more responsive online, 160,912
cases related to a number of events are not individually listed online because
the information related to those cases is identical. Some of those events are:
1) The posthumous pardoning in 2017 of 49,000 men in England and Wales
convicted of consensual homosexual related acts committed prior to 1967
that are no longer considered criminal; 2) The legal vindication in
2017 of 50,000 men in Germany – 45,000 posthumously and 5,000 still
living – convicted of consensual homosexual related acts between 1945
and 1994 that are no longer considered criminal; 3) 21,587 people were
exonerated in 2017 as a result of the Annie Dookhan drug evidence
scandal at the Hinton State Laboratory in Massachusetts; 4)11,162
people were exonerated in 2018 as a result of the Sonja Farak scandal
at the Massachusetts State Crime Laboratory in Amherst, Massachusetts;
5) The quashing in 2019 of 4,000 convictions of people in Ireland who
were
convicted of non-existent traffic related violations; and 6) 11,017
people were pardoned in 2019 of misdemeanor convictions for marijuana
possession that was decriminalized in Illinois in 2019.
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