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However, I believe that the appeal process in the US offers enormous protection, not so much against wrongful conviction as against wrongful execution, so that there are very few, if any, documented cases of innocent people being killed.

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But what we do know is that false confessions or admissions were present in approximately 25 percent of wrongful convictions of people later exonerated by DNA evidence.

Of course, if we're just looking at wrongful convictions and exonerations, we're only getting part of the story.

Over the course of the first year, we found about 13 wrongful convictions, people having been in jail for decades, and we released all of them.

For the men in these photographs, the primary cause of their wrongful conviction was mistaken identification.

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