About the Registry

The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the University of Michigan Law School. It was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The Registry provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989—cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence.

Exoneration News

4/13/2016

Our new mobile app makes it easy to read about exonerations seconds after they are added to the Registry!  You can find it in the App Store for iPhones and in Google Play for Androids by searching "exonerations." It's free and includes an exoneration counter, recently posted exoneration stories, and a notification each time a new exoneration is added.

current Exonerations