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Mark Crotts

Mark Crotts

In 1992, Mark Crotts was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a double murder in Alamance County, North Carolina. He was acquitted at a retrial in 1997 after DNA testing excluded him as the source of blood under one victim's fingernails. Photo: Jack Sink/Associated Press​
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Tracy Jordan

Tracy Jordan

Tracy Jordan was convicted of murder in 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was exonerated in 2024, after a re-examination of his case revealed that the state had failed to disclose wide-ranging exculpatory evidence pointing to other suspects and theories of the crime. (Photo: Phillips Black) ​
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Elon Wilson

Elon Wilson

In 2019, Elon Wilson pled guilty to weapons and drug possession in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was exonerated in 2021, after an investigation into the arresting officer showed that the officer lied about basis for the traffic stop that led to Wilson's arrest.​
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Ricky Webb

Ricky Webb

In 1978, Ricky Webb was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the rape and murder of a 29-year-old woman in Gibson County, Tennessee. He was exonerated in 2024 based on the discovery of exculpatory evidence that had not been disclosed, including statements from his nephew, Carl, who admitted he committed the crime alone. ​
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