This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row but later had their convictions overturned. Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously."Innocence: List of Those Freed from Death Row". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved March 12, 2014. The state listed is that in which the conviction occurred, the year is that of release and the case is that which overturned the conviction.

This list includes: Former death row inmates who were conditionally pardoned, had their sentences commuted, or had their cases dismissed, and were subsequently exonerated. Death row inmates who were legally exonerated, but not proven factually innocent. Death row inmates who remain in prison or on death row for other capital or non-capital convictions.

This list does not include:

People who were convicted of or pleaded guilty or no contest to lesser charges directly related to the crime before the fact. People who were initially exonerated, but subsequently convicted for the same offense. For example, Timothy Hennis was later retried and convicted of the Eastburn family murders under dual sovereignty after new evidence proved his guilt.

The names of exonerees who names are marked with an asterisk (*) indicate that the events of their cases in which it was determined that no crime had taken place.

Canada Year Details of Exoneration 1913 Stephen Kiyoshk was accused of murdering two men, Charles Nahdee and Adam Johns, in 1912. He was convicted of murdering Johns, but not Nahdee, despite the belief that both victims had been murdered by the same person. One of the main witnesses, Flossie Williams, also claimed that Kiyoshk, was innocent, but she had an incentive to lie since she was Kiyoshk's girlfriend and later married him. Kiyoshk was awarded a new trial and the charges were later withdrawn. In 1939, Kiyoshk was charged with murdering another man named Jerry Blackbird. He was convicted of murder in 1940 and sentenced to death. This time, Kiyoshk's appeals were unsuccessful. He was hanged in 1941.1923Terlochen Singh was convicted of the murder of 15-year-old Hukam Singh in 1922. Terlochen was reprieved after officials received an affidavit declaring that new evidence had been uncovered. He was acquitted at a retrial after a witness testified that she had seen a beardless Indian man in company with the victim prior to his murder (Terlochen had a beard).1928Joseph Sankey was convicted of the murder of Loretta Chisholm in 1926. In 1927, Sankey was granted a new trial after it was determined that he had been coerced into making incriminating statements to the police. He was acquitted at a retrial the following year.1928Leung Chong was convicted of the murder of RCMP officer Ernest Sargent in 1927. Chong was granted a retrial over the use of inadmissible character evidence against him. He was acquitted the following year.1938John Comba was convicted of the rape and murder of 13-year-old Ethel Hedderwick in 1937 based on a coincidental remark he made shortly before finding the body, "I think we shall find something near here," and the fact that he washed his clothes shortly after. In May 1938, the Court of Appeal for Ontario overturned Comba's conviction, stating that he had an alibi. The Supreme Court of Canada barred a retrial for Comba the following month.1943In 1943, Luigi Stabile was charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, who disappeared in 1916, after his skeleton was discovered underneath the cellar of the farmhouse where Stabile once lived. This drew suspicion since Stabile had never notified the police about the disappearance and the victim's daughter later testified that she saw her father enter the farmhouse with Stabile shortly before his disappearance. Noting that no motive or cause of death was ever established, an appellate court found that there was insufficient evidence against Stabile.1944Harold Ferguson was convicted of the murder of Abraham Rosenberg in 1944. The Court of Appeal for Ontario overturned his conviction, finding that he had not received a fair trial. No retrial was ordered.1946Lorne Cecil Harris was convicted of the rape and murder of Audrey Lyons in 1946. It was quickly determined that money and rings had also been stolen from the victim. However, none of these items were found on Harris, who was acquitted at a retrial. At the second trial, the jury was told that Harris, who was drunk, would have been unable to subdue the victim on his own.1947Evelyn Dick was convicted of the murder of her husband in 1947. She was granted a new trial after statements she made to the police were deemed inadmissible and acquitted at her retrial. Later that year, however, Dick was convicted of manslaughter for killing her infant son and sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled in 1958.1955Olivier Tarte was convicted of the murder of his 94-year-old aunt in 1954. His conviction was overturned after an appellate court found that his confession had been obtained under coercion and there was no other evidence proving his guilt.1961Charles Heathman was convicted of the sexual assault and murder of a 10-year-old boy in 1961. His conviction was overturned after three out of five judges for the British Columbia Court of Appeal said the evidence indicated that someone else had killed the boy. In 1962, Heathman made a written confession to the murder, but could not be retried due to the double jeopardy rule. Heathman was committed to a psychiatric hospital after his confession, which he then attempted to recant. Heathman was released in 1964. Later that year, he was sentenced to two years in prison for the possession of narcotics. 2007 Steven Truscott, then 14, was convicted of a schoolmate's rape and murder in 1959. His sentence was commuted to life in prison four months later, and he was paroled in 1969. His conviction was overturned in 2007 for "miscarriage of justice." A court found that while it could not declare Truscott factually innocent, there was insufficient evidence to declare him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In July 2008, the Ontario government announced it would pay Truscott $6.5 million in compensation for his ordeal.

India Six men (Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde) were convicted and sentenced to death in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent.

Ireland In 2015, the President of Ireland granted a posthumous pardon to Harry Gleeson, who was executed in 1941 for the murder of Moll McCarthy, on the grounds that he had been wrongfully convicted.

In 2018, the President of Ireland granted a posthumous pardon to Maolra Seoighe, who was executed in 1882 for the Maamtrasna Murders on the grounds that he had most likely been wrongfully convicted. In addition, he had not received a fair trial. Although Seoighe could only speak Irish, the case was heard in English without any translation service.

Israel +YearDetails of Exoneration1949In 1948, IDF major Meir Tobianski was tried by a drumhead court-martial for treason after being accused of spying for Jordan during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. On June 30, 1948, he was found guilty of passing information on targets for Jordanian artillery and sentenced to death. Tobianski was not allowed to appeal the verdict and was executed by firing squad minutes after sentencing on the orders of Isser Be'eri, the first director of the IDF's intelligence branch. On July 1, 1949, Tobianski was posthumously acquitted and had his rank reinstated by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. In November 1949, Isser Be'eri, who was forced to resign was tried and found guilty of manslaughter by the Tel Aviv District Court for his role in Tobianski's wrongful execution. The court found that since there was a ceasefire in effect at the time, any information allegedly passed by Tobianski could not have helped Jordanian artillery.Nachman Ben-Yehuda (1992), Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice, , p. 266 Be'eri received a symbolic punishment of one day of prison, "from sunrise to sunset, 30 days after sentencing", before being pardoned by the president, Chaim Weizmann.1993In 1988, John Demjanjuk was sentenced to death war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people after being convicted of his alleged participation in atrocities at Treblinka extermination camp. Multiple survivors of the camp had identified Demjanjuk as a notorious guard known as Ivan the Terrible. In 1993, the Supreme Court of Israel overturned the verdict against Demjanjuk after Soviet archives proved that he had never been at the camp. The written statements of 37 former guards at Treblinka identified Ivan the Terrible was a man named "Ivan Marchenko". Nevertheless, the documents simultaneously proved that while Demjanjuk was never at Treblinka, he had served at other concentration camps, including Sobibor extermination camp. The prosecution sought to retry him for lesser war crimes, but the court refused, declaring that it'd be a violation of double jeopardy and that, "We know nothing about him at Sobibor." After his acquittal, Demjanjuk, who had been living in Ohio prior to his prosecution, was allowed to return to the United States after having his citizenship restored. However, in 1999, U.S. prosecutors again sought to deport Demjanjuk for serving as a guard at other concentration camp. His citizenship was revoked in 2002 and he was deported to Germany in 2009. In 2011, Demjanjuk was convicted of being an accessory to the murders of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor and sentenced to five years in prison, with credit for the two years he had already served in pre-trial detention. The judge released Demjanjuk from custody pending his appeal. He died before a decision could be made on his appeal in 2012.

Japan

Year Details of Exoneration 1983 Sakae Menda was forced to confess to the murders of a Buddhist priest and his wife in 1948 and was convicted on two counts of murder and robbery in 1949. In a 1983 retrial, he was found not guilty of all charges. He died in 2020. 1989 Masao Akahori was convicted in 1954 at the age of 24 of raping and murdering a schoolgirl. In 1989, he became the fourth death row inmate in Japan to be released. 2024 Iwao Hakamada was accused of stabbing a family of four to death and covering it up with a house fire in 1966. Hakamada was released from prison in 2014 and was acquitted in a retrial by the Shizuoka District Court.

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