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| Name | State | County | Convicted | Exonerated | Crime | Sentence | Term of Years | Years lost | Age | Race | Sex | Year of recantation | Date of Release | Posting Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Velasquez, Ronald Jr. | California | Los Angeles | 2001 | 2024 | Murder | Term of Years | 50 to Life | 22 | 18 | Hispanic | Male | 2024 | 03-27-2024 | |
| Veres, Rose | Michigan | Wayne | 1931 | 1945 | Murder | Life | 14 | 48 | White | Female | 1945 | 11-27-2017 | ||
| Vickers, John | North Carolina | Caldwell | 1907 | 1917 | Murder | Term of Years | 26 years | 10 | 40 | White | Male | 1917 | ||
| Villa, Alexander | Illinois | Cook | 2019 | 2024 | Murder | Life | 6 | 23 | Hispanic | Male | 2024 | 10-16-2024 | ||
| Villalobos, Abraham | California | Los Angeles | 2001 | 2024 | Murder | Term of Years | 15 to Life | 14 | 21 | Hispanic | Male | 2015 | 03-27-2024 | |
| Villegas, Daniel | Texas | El Paso | 1995 | 2018 | Murder | Life | 18 | 16 | Hispanic | Male | 2014 | 10-15-2018 | ||
| Vindiola, Bernard | California | Fresno | 1977 | 1979 | Murder | Term of Years | 5 years to life | 3 | 21 | Hispanic | Male | 1979 | ||
| Voss, Krystal | Colorado | Alamosa | 2004 | 2017 | Murder | Term of Years | 20 years | 9 | 28 | White | Female | 2013 | 09-20-2017 | |
| Walker, James | New York | Kings | 1971 | 1990 | Murder | Term of Years | 20 to Life | 19 | 30 | Black | Male | 1990 | 05-16-2013 | |
| Walker, Keith | Illinois | Cook | 1994 | 2020 | Murder | Life without parole | 26 | 23 | Black | Male | 2020 | 08-26-2020 | ||
| Walker, Lee Dell | Michigan | Wayne | 1954 | 1972 | Murder | Life | 18 | 41 | Black | Male | 1972 | |||
| Walker, Xavier | Illinois | Cook | 2004 | 2019 | Murder | Term of Years | 35 years | 15 | 19 | Black | Male | 2019 | 01-02-2020 | |
| Wallace, Robert | Georgia | Baldwin | 1980 | 1987 | Murder | Death | 7 | 29 | Black | Male | 1987 | |||
| Walpole, Merla | California | San Bernadino | 1975 | 1975 | Murder | Not Sentenced | 0 | 26 | Hispanic | Female | 1975 | |||
| Ward, Ramon | Michigan | Wayne | 1995 | 2020 | Murder | Life without parole | 25 | 18 | Black | Male | 2020 | 03-23-2020 | ||
| Ware, Melonie | Georgia | DeKalb | 2005 | 2009 | Murder | Life | 1 | 30 | Black | Female | 2006 | 10-11-2011 | ||
| Warney, Douglas | New York | Monroe | 1997 | 2006 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 to Life | 9 | 34 | White | Male | 2006 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Warren, Cedric | Kansas | Wyandotte | 2010 | 2024 | Murder | Term of Years | 50 to Life | 14 | 18 | Black | Male | 2024 | 01-23-2025 | |
| Warrior, Kevin | Oklahoma | Tulsa | 2016 | 2019 | Murder | Life | 4 | 23 | Black | Male | 2019 | 11-25-2019 | ||
| Washington, Calvin E. | Texas | McLennan | 1987 | 2001 | Murder | Life | 14 | 30 | Black | Male | 2001 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Washington, Earl Jr. | Virginia | Culpeper | 1984 | 2000 | Murder | Death | 17 | 22 | Black | Male | 2000 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Washington, Jabbar | New York | Kings | 1997 | 2017 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 to Life | 20 | 21 | Black | Male | 2017 | 07-17-2017 | |
| Washington, Terrance | Florida | Leon | 1997 | 2001 | Murder | Life without parole | 3 | 16 | Black | Male | 2000 | 10-02-2022 | ||
| Watkins, Joyce | Tennessee | Davidson | 1988 | 2022 | Murder | Life | 27 | 39 | Black | Female | 2015 | 01-24-2022 | ||
| Weakley, Eric | Virginia | Culpeper | 2001 | 2022 | Murder | Term of Years | 6 years and 8 months | 5 | 16 | White | Male | 2006 | 01-26-2022 | |
| Weaver, Joseph | Ohio | Cuyahoga | 1927 | 1929 | Murder | Death | 2 | 33 | Black | Male | 1929 | |||
| Weaver, Mary | Iowa | Marshall | 1994 | 1997 | Murder | Life without parole | 2 | 41 | White | Female | 1996 | 07-29-2012 | ||
| Webb, Kenneth | Michigan | Washtenaw | 1987 | 2022 | Murder | Life without parole | 35 | 30 | White | Male | 2022 | 11-14-2022 | ||
| Webb, Ricky | Tennessee | Gibson | 1978 | 2024 | Murder | Life without parole | 46 | 21 | Black | Male | 2023 | 2024 | 11-12-2024 | |
| Weichel, Fred | Massachusetts | Norfolk | 1981 | 2017 | Murder | Life without parole | 36 | 28 | White | Male | 2017 | 08-10-2017 | ||
| Weiner, Murray | California | San Diego | 1994 | 1996 | Murder | Not Sentenced | 2 | 65 | White | Male | 1996 | 03-16-2013 | ||
| Welcome, Ernest | New York | Bronx | 1970 | 1977 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 years to life | 8 | 20 | Black | Male | 1977 | 03-30-2021 | |
| Whirl, Shawn | Illinois | Cook | 1991 | 2015 | Murder | Term of Years | 60 years | 24 | 20 | Black | Male | 2015 | 10-22-2015 | |
| Whitaker, Mark | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 2003 | 2019 | Murder | Life without parole | 16 | 29 | Black | Male | 2019 | 06-12-2019 | ||
| White, Curtis | Virginia | Loudoun | 1993 | 1994 | Murder | Not Sentenced | 1 | 31 | Black | Male | 1994 | 03-11-2013 | ||
| White, George | Alabama | Coffee | 1987 | 1992 | Murder | Life | 2 | 36 | White | Male | 1989 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Whitley, Drew | Pennsylvania | Allegheny | 1989 | 2006 | Murder | Life | 17 | 32 | Black | Male | 2006 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Wilber, Danny | Wisconsin | Milwaukee | 2005 | 2022 | Murder | Life | 17 | 24 | Native American | Male | 2021 | 07-04-2022 | ||
| Wilcoxson, Robert | North Carolina | Buncombe | 2002 | 2011 | Murder | Term of Years | 12 1/2 to 15 3/4 years | 9 | 21 | Black | Male | 2011 | 10-12-2011 | |
| Wilhoit, Gregory | Oklahoma | Osage | 1987 | 1993 | Murder | Death | 6 | 30 | White | Male | 1993 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Wilkinson, Robert | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 1976 | 1977 | Murder | Not Sentenced | 1 | 26 | White | Male | 1977 | |||
| Wilks, Calvin | Mississippi | Hinds | 1981 | 1984 | Murder | Life | 4 | 21 | Don't Know | Male | 1984 | |||
| Williams, Calvin | Louisiana | Orleans | 1977 | 1996 | Murder | Life | 15 | Black | Male | 1992 | 08-29-2011 | |||
| Williams, Christopher | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 1992 | 2021 | Murder | Life without parole | 29 | 29 | Black | Male | 2021 | 02-24-2021 | ||
| Williams, Clifford Jr. | Florida | Duval | 1976 | 2019 | Murder | Death | 43 | 33 | Black | Male | 2019 | 04-04-2019 | ||
| Williams, Cordell | Illinois | Cook | 1995 | 2022 | Murder | Life without parole | 27 | 19 | Black | Male | 2022 | 12-20-2022 | ||
| Williams, Duane | Michigan | Wayne | 2013 | 2024 | Murder | Life without parole | 11 | 42 | Black | Male | 2024 | 11-01-2024 | ||
| Williams, Dwayne | Louisiana | Orleans | 1995 | 2022 | Murder | Life without parole | 27 | 22 | Black | Male | 2022 | 11-21-2023 | ||
| Williams, George | North Carolina | Onslow | 1922 | 1928 | Murder | Death | 5 | Black | Male | 1928 | ||||
| Williams, Hayes | Louisiana | Orleans | 1968 | 1997 | Murder | Life | 29 | 19 | Black | Male | 1997 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Williams, Herman | Illinois | Lake | 1994 | 2022 | Murder | Life without parole | 29 | 29 | White | Male | 2022 | 09-26-2022 | ||
| Williams, James | Georgia | Chatham | 1982 | 1989 | Murder | Life | 3 | 50 | White | Male | 1985 | 06-22-2013 | ||
| Williams, Joe Sidney Jr. | Texas | McLennan | 1987 | 1993 | Murder | Life | 6 | 19 | Black | Male | 1993 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Williams, Larry Jr. | North Carolina | Buncombe | 2002 | 2015 | Murder | Term of Years | 10 years | 7 | 16 | Black | Male | 2009 | 10-11-2015 | |
| Williams, Richard | California | Sacramento | 1998 | 2015 | Murder | Life without parole | 17 | 18 | Black | Male | 2015 | 01-26-2016 | ||
| Williams, Terrance | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 1985 | 2020 | Murder | Term of Years | 13 1/2 to 27 years | 1 | 17 | Black | Male | 1986 | 03-25-2020 | |
| Williamson, Jack | Florida | Broward | 1933 | 1942 | Murder | Death | 9 | 19 | Black | Male | 1942 | 02-11-2021 | ||
| Willis, Cedric | Mississippi | Hinds | 1997 | 2006 | Murder | Life | 9 | 19 | Black | Male | 2006 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Willis, Ernest Ray | Texas | Pecos | 1987 | 2004 | Murder | Death | 17 | 39 | White | Male | 2004 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Willis, Patrick | California | Alameda | 2013 | 2021 | Murder | Life without parole | 8 | 28 | Black | Male | 2021 | 06-18-2021 | ||
| Willoughby, Troy | Wyoming | Sublette | 2010 | 2012 | Murder | Life | 2 | 20 | White | Male | 2012 | 04-18-2012 | ||
| Wilson, Andrew | California | Los Angeles | 1986 | 2017 | Murder | Life without parole | 30 | 29 | Black | Male | 2017 | 04-03-2017 | ||
| Wilson, David | Florida | Miami-Dade | 1967 | 1971 | Murder | Term of Years | 20 years | 4 | 23 | Black | Male | 1971 | ||
| Wilson, Harold C. | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 1989 | 2005 | Murder | Death | 16 | 30 | Black | Male | 2005 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Wilson, Horace | New Jersey | Mercer | 1948 | 1951 | Murder | Death | 3 | 37 | Black | Male | 1951 | |||
| Wilson, William | Alabama | Blount | 1915 | 1918 | Murder | Life | 3 | 38 | White | Male | 1918 | |||
| Winfrey, Megan | Texas | San Jacinto | 2008 | 2013 | Murder | Life | 5 | 16 | White | Female | 2013 | 04-18-2013 | ||
| Winfrey, Richard Sr. | Texas | San Jacinto | 2007 | 2010 | Murder | Term of Years | 75 years | 3 | 49 | White | Male | 2010 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Wirkkala, Luke | Oregon | Deschutes | 2014 | 2021 | Murder | Life | 7 | 32 | White | Male | 2021 | 04-28-2021 | ||
| Woidtke, Rodney | Illinois | St. Clair | 1989 | 2001 | Murder | Term of Years | 45 years | 12 | 27 | White | Male | 2001 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Womble, Willie | North Carolina | Granville | 1976 | 2014 | Murder | Term of Years | 80 years | 38 | 21 | Black | Male | 2014 | 10-17-2014 | |
| Woods, Cathy | Nevada | Washoe | 1980 | 2015 | Murder | Life without parole | 34 | 26 | White | Female | 2014 | 03-09-2015 | ||
| Woods, William | Fed-AR | (Western) | 1888 | 1889 | Murder | Death | 0 | 20 | White | Male | 1889 | |||
| Woodward, Walter | Florida | Broward | 1933 | 1942 | Murder | Death | 9 | 32 | Black | Male | 1942 | 02-11-2021 | ||
| Woodworth, Mark | Missouri | Livingston | 1995 | 2014 | Murder | Life | 19 | 16 | White | Male | 2014 | 07-23-2014 | ||
| Woolfolk, Michael | Georgia | Fulton | 2004 | 2021 | Murder | Life without parole | 17 | 23 | Black | Male | 2021 | 05-22-2021 | ||
| Yanez, Jose | Illinois | Rock Island | 2020 | 2024 | Murder | Term of Years | 15 years | 2 | 28 | Hispanic | Male | 2022 | 12-05-2024 | |
| Yelder, George | Alabama | Lowndes | 1928 | 1928 | Murder | Life | 0 | 55 | Black | Male | 1928 | |||
| Young, Dan Jr. | Illinois | Cook | 1994 | 2005 | Murder | Life without parole | 10 | 30 | Black | Male | 2005 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Zajicek, Herman | Illinois | Cook | 1907 | 1917 | Murder | Death | 9 | 39 | White | Male | 1917 | |||
| Zimmerman, Evan | Wisconsin | Eau Claire | 2001 | 2005 | Murder | Life | 3 | 53 | White | Male | 2004 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Zimmerman, Isidore | New York | New York | 1938 | 1962 | Murder | Death | 24 | 19 | White | Male | 1962 | 02-28-2019 |