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Newly Published Exonerations
On February 26, 1993, between 8:30-9 p.m., Keith Robinson was shot outside the Mission Hill Housing Projects in Boston, Massachusetts, and was pronounced dead a short while later at Brigham and Women…
At about 6 p.m. on June 29, 1998, three men got out of a car parked in front of Fidelity Financial Services, a loan office in a strip mall in Fullerton, California. Two of them knocked on the door…
Just after 7:30 p.m. on January 23, 2017, firefighters were dispatched to a trailer fire at the Mohawk Mobile Home Park in Westland, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. At the time of the fire, the…
On the evening of January 14, 1991, Debra Milner was tending bar at the Hi-Way Inn, a combination bar and liquor store on Governor Printz Boulevard near Wilmington, Delaware. While she tended the…
At 6:21 p.m. on May 15, 2007, 20- year-old Nathaniel Onsrud called his girlfriend, Elizabeth Lancial, and said that their infant son, Dax Lancial, was bleeding from the nose and having trouble…
Two men robbed the First National Bank of Atlanta, Texas, at approximately 2:40 p.m. on June 6, 1934. The robbers escaped with over $10,000 in cash, jewelry, and securities. Three bank employees and…
Two men robbed the First National Bank of Atlanta, Texas, at approximately 2:40 p.m. on June 6, 1934. The robbers escaped with over $10,000 in cash, jewelry, and securities. Three bank employees and…
On October 16, 1994, the body of 26-year-old Pernell Kimplin was discovered by his mother and a co-worker in his apartment in Greenfield, Massachusetts, after he didn’t show up for his job as a horse…
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The Registry is a living archive of injustice. We collect, analyze, and publish comprehensive information on all known exonerations of criminal defendants in the United States.
We study the frequency and distribution of exonerations, and the causes, costs, and consequences of wrongful convictions. We make our data, research, and stories broadly accessible. Our goal is to be a resource for those who want to improve the criminal legal system and make it more accountable.
The Registry is a project of the Michigan State University College of Law, the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at the University of California—Irvine, and the University of Michigan Law School.
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Reports
In the Press
The New York Times
Blind MagazineFalse Confessions: the Victims of American Justice (6/15/2026)
USA TodayHe spent decades in prison. How the botched murder case was uncovered. (5/19/2026)