How broken is the U.S. legal system?
Take this quiz to make sure you know key information about the prevalence of wrongful convictions.
About how many people behind bars are innocent?
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, in what century did the earliest recorded exoneration in the U.S. occur?
The first DNA exoneration in the U.S. occurred in:
True or false: More people have been exonerated by DNA testing than by any other means.
What is the leading contributing factor in wrongful convictions proven with post-conviction DNA testing?
Black people are ___ times more likely than white people to be wrongfully convicted of murder.
True or false: No woman has been exonerated from death row in the United States.
Who said it? “The death penalty is absolute, irreversible and irreparable in the event of human error.”
True or false: Exonerated people are entitled to apply for compensation in all 50 states.
True or false: No prosecutor has ever gone to jail for prosecutorial misconduct that caused a wrongful conviction.
The Alford Plea allows someone: