TAMPA, FL - SEPTEMBER 23: Paul Hildwin takes pride in his community and home by taking care of the grounds of the property where he lives. He spends his free time working with his hands and fixing broken things, like generators. Paul Hildwin was set free after a 35-year struggle for justice. Hildwin spent 29 years on Florida’s Death Row before his murder conviction was overturned by new DNA evidence. (Photo by Casey Brooke Lawson/Innocence Project)

Tyrone Day attends his exoneration hearing in the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Texas on May 24, 2023. (Image: Montinique Monroe for Innocence Project)

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Leonard Mack Exonerated After 47 Years

Unreliable witness identifications along with racial bias and tunnel vision led to Mr. Mack’s wrongful conviction, the longest to be vacated based on DNA evidence.

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Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 in Angola, La. ( AP Photo/Judi Bottoni )

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Rosa Jimenez Exonerated and In Need of a Life-Saving Kidney

Rosa is just 41, endured nearly 20 years wrongly incarcerated, and desperately needs a live donor so she can get a kidney transplant.

Rosa Jimenez in downtown Austin, Texas, on March 4, 2021.

Morton Johnson Has Spent More Than Half His Life in Prison for a Crime New DNA Evidence Shows He Didn’t Commit

New DNA evidence supports what he’s always said: He didn’t commit the crime.

Morton Johnson with his Innocence Project attorney Vanessa Potkin.

Basketball Was His Escape During His Wrongful Conviction. Now, Norberto Peets Is Free At Last.

Before he was exonerated in May, Norberto Peets was wrongly incarcerated for 26 years for a Bronx shooting he did not commit.

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