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The Registry contains an up-to-date list of exonerations in the United States since January 1989 – 891  exonerations  as of today – with su mmaries of the cases and searchable data on each.  This is the largest  database of exonerations ever assembled.

Snapshot figures of the 873 exonerated defendants:

• 93% are men, 7% women;

• 37% were exonerated with the help of DNA evidence; 63% without DNA;

• as a group, they spent more than 10,000 years in prison – an average of more than 11 years each.

• The 873 exonerations are mostly rape and murder cases, but the data also include many more exonerations for other crimes than previously known.