Other Murder Sexual Assault Drug Possessionor Sale 50% 36 12 60 33 6 55 25 18 Black Caucasian Hisp. Years Before Wrongful Convictions Were Overturned Black defendants wait longer, on average, to be exonerated than wrongfully convicted whites or Hispanics. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyWhen it comes to murder, black defendants account for 40 percent of those convicted of the crime, but 50 percent of those wrongfully convicted, they found. Whites accounted for 36 percent of wrongfully convicted murder defendants. A high murder rate within the black community contributes to the high number of wrongfully convicted black murder defendants, but it alone does not explain the disparity, the authors write.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2017 12:42 UTC