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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 |
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| Umana, Alex | California | Los Angeles | 1997 | 2000 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 5 years | 3 | 31 | Hispanic | Male | 2000 | 02-09-2021 | |
| Ury, George | Ohio | Wyandot | 1901 | 1913 | Murder | Life | 12 | 48 | White | Male | 1913 | 08-29-2022 | ||
| Vaile, Darnai | Washington | Spokane | 2020 | 2023 | Other Nonviolent Misdemeanor | Probation | 0 | 23 | Black | Male | 2020 | 08-21-2023 | ||
| Vailette, John | Fed-CT | 2015 | 2018 | Murder | Not Sentenced | 0 | 34 | White | Male | 2015 | 11-15-2018 | |||
| Valderrama, Paul | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 1975 | 1979 | Murder | Life | 5 | 20 | Hispanic | Male | 1979 | |||
| Valentine, Ray | California | Contra Costa | 2014 | 2015 | Other Nonviolent Misdemeanor | Term of Years | 110 days | 0 | 55 | Hispanic | Male | 2014 | 03-22-2016 | |
| Vara, Revat | Texas | Harris | 2007 | 2017 | Traffic Offense | Term of Years | 25 years | 10 | 39 | Hispanic | Male | 2017 | 09-28-2017 | |
| Varela, Ignacio | Illinois | Cook | 1982 | 1991 | Murder | Life without parole | 8 | 42 | Hispanic | Male | 1991 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Vargas, Alfredo | Connecticut | Fairfield | 2002 | 2006 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 12 years | 4 | 62 | Hispanic | Male | 2006 | 07-11-2013 | |
| Vargas-Cintron, Johnny | Massachusetts | Middlesex | 2011 | 2013 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 7 years | 2 | 34 | Hispanic | Male | 2013 | 11-08-2013 | |
| Vasquez, Michael | New York | New York | 1997 | 2012 | Robbery | Term of Years | 20 to life | 15 | 40 | Hispanic | Male | 2012 | 12-06-2013 | |
| Vaughan, James III | Ohio | Cuyahoga | 2008 | 2009 | Child Sex Abuse | Life without parole | 1 | 28 | Black | Male | 2009 | 05-08-2015 | ||
| Vaughn, Tony Jr. | Texas | Harris | 2018 | 2023 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 180 days | 0 | 50 | Black | Male | 2019 | 05-01-2023 | |
| Vaz, David | Vermont | Orleans | 2022 | 2023 | Kidnapping | Not Sentenced | 1 | 27 | Black | Male | 2023 | 09-19-2023 | ||
| Vega, Jose | New Jersey | Camden | 2009 | 2010 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 33 | Hispanic | Male | 2009 | 08-29-2022 | ||
| Velasquez, Ronald Jr. | California | Los Angeles | 2001 | 2024 | Murder | Term of Years | 50 to Life | 22 | 18 | Hispanic | Male | 2024 | 03-27-2024 | |
| Veltmann, Carl | Fed-FL | (Middle) | 1992 | 1996 | Arson | Life | 5 | 62 | White | Male | 1996 | 05-28-2013 | ||
| Veltmann, Christopher | Fed-FL | (Middle) | 1992 | 1996 | Arson | Life | 5 | 35 | White | Male | 1996 | 05-28-2013 | ||
| Veney, David | Maryland | Wicomico | 1997 | 2005 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 25 years | 8 | 20 | Black | Male | 2005 | 06-14-2023 | |
| Veres, Rose | Michigan | Wayne | 1931 | 1945 | Murder | Life | 14 | 48 | White | Female | 1945 | 11-27-2017 | ||
| Verkuilen, Maxwell | Wisconsin | Outagamie | 2003 | 2007 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 4 years | 3 | 25 | White | Male | 2007 | 01-05-2015 | |
| Vickers, John | 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 | |
| Villasana, Armand | Missouri | Greene | 1999 | 2000 | Sexual Assault | Not Sentenced | 1 | 44 | Hispanic | Male | 2000 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Villegas, Daniel | Texas | El Paso | 1995 | 2018 | Murder | Life | 18 | 16 | Hispanic | Male | 2014 | 10-15-2018 | ||
| Voss, Krystal | Colorado | Alamosa | 2004 | 2017 | Murder | Term of Years | 20 years | 9 | 28 | White | Female | 2013 | 09-20-2017 | |
| Waddy, Alvin | Illinois | Cook | 2007 | 2019 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years | 1 | 21 | Black | Male | 2008 | 02-22-2019 | |
| Wagstaffe, Everton | New York | Kings | 1993 | 2015 | Kidnapping | Term of Years | 12 1/2 to 25 years | 22 | 23 | Black | Male | 2014 | 08-02-2015 | |
| Wahad, Dhoruba bin | New York | New York | 1973 | 1995 | Attempted Murder | Term of Years | 25 to Life | 17 | 26 | Black | Male | 1990 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Walden, Derrick | Michigan | Berrien | 2015 | 2017 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 25 to 75 years | 2 | 36 | White | Male | 2017 | 01-25-2018 | |
| Walker, Bruce | Illinois | Cook | 2004 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 21 | Black | Male | 2004 | 03-01-2022 | ||
| Walker, Danny | Illinois | DuPage | 2012 | 2018 | Fraud | Term of Years | 6 months | 1 | 47 | Black | Male | 2012 | 04-20-2018 | |
| Walker, David | Illinois | Cook | 2007 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 4 years | 1 | 20 | Black | Male | 2009 | 03-02-2022 | |
| Walker, Derek | Illinois | Cook | 2004 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 1 year and 6 months | 0 | 19 | Black | Male | 2004 | 03-02-2022 | |
| Walker, Gene | Texas | Harris | 2017 | 2024 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 7 years | 2 | 38 | Black | Male | 2019 | 01-02-2025 | |
| Walker, Jamal | Illinois | Cook | 2016 | 2020 | Weapon Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 8 years and 6 months | 3 | 31 | Black | Male | 2019 | 05-27-2021 | |
| Walker, James | New York | Kings | 1971 | 1990 | Murder | Term of Years | 20 to Life | 19 | 30 | Black | Male | 1990 | 05-16-2013 | |
| Walker, Jermaine | Illinois | Cook | 2006 | 2016 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 10 to 22 years | 10 | 29 | Black | Male | 2016 | 04-26-2016 | |
| Walker, Keith | Illinois | Cook | 1994 | 2020 | Murder | Life without parole | 26 | 23 | Black | Male | 2020 | 08-26-2020 | ||
| Walker, Moses | Mississippi | Lauderdale | 1907 | 1912 | Attempted Murder | Term of Years | 10 years | 5 | Black | Male | 1912 | |||
| Walker, Russell | Illinois | Cook | 2007 | 2017 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 7 years | 2 | 30 | Black | Male | 2009 | 05-13-2018 | |
| Walker, Xavier | Illinois | Cook | 2004 | 2019 | Murder | Term of Years | 35 years | 15 | 19 | Black | Male | 2019 | 01-02-2020 | |
| Wallach, E. Robert | Fed-NY | (Southern) | 1989 | 1993 | Fraud | Term of Years | 6 years | 0 | 50 | White | Male | 1989 | 03-29-2013 | |
| Wallis, Gregory | Texas | Dallas | 1989 | 2007 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 50 years | 17 | 27 | White | Male | 2006 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Walls, Dorian | Illinois | Cook | 2005 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years | 1 | 24 | Black | Male | 2006 | 04-27-2022 | |
| Walls, George | Pennsylvania | Allegheny | 2003 | 2011 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 5 to 10 years | 8 | 39 | Black | Male | 2011 | 08-30-2012 | |
| Walters, Earl | New York | Queens | 1994 | 2023 | Kidnapping | Term of Years | 17 1/2 to 40 | 19 | 17 | Black | Male | 2013 | 09-05-2023 | |
| Ward, Ramon | Michigan | Wayne | 1995 | 2020 | Murder | Life without parole | 25 | 18 | Black | Male | 2020 | 03-23-2020 | ||
| Wardell, Billy | Illinois | Cook | 1988 | 1997 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 69 years | 10 | 21 | Black | Male | 1997 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Ware, Robert | Illinois | Woodford | 2017 | 2022 | Assault | Term of Years | 4 years | 3 | 40 | Black | Male | 2021 | 05-31-2023 | |
| Warren, Cedric | Kansas | Wyandotte | 2010 | 2024 | Murder | Term of Years | 50 to Life | 14 | 18 | Black | Male | 2024 | 01-23-2025 | |
| Warren, Gregory | Illinois | Cook | 2007 | 2018 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 28 | Black | Male | 2007 | 12-10-2018 | ||
| Washburn, Michael | Massachusetts | Bristol | 2002 | 2003 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 4 years | 0 | 20 | White | Male | 2003 | 11-17-2017 | |
| Washington, Calvin E. | Texas | McLennan | 1987 | 2001 | Murder | Life | 14 | 30 | Black | Male | 2001 | 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, Mahlik | Illinois | Cook | 2008 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 16 | Black | Male | 2008 | 09-13-2023 | ||
| Washington, Phillip | Michigan | Berrien | 2007 | 2009 | Drug Possession or Sale | Unknown | 2 | 24 | Black | Male | 2009 | 01-09-2023 | ||
| Washington, Terrance | Florida | Leon | 1997 | 2001 | Murder | Life without parole | 3 | 16 | Black | Male | 2000 | 10-02-2022 | ||
| Watford, Roy III | Virginia | Portsmouth City | 1978 | 2018 | Child Sex Abuse | Probation | 0 | 18 | Black | Male | 1978 | 03-08-2018 | ||
| Watkins, Jacob | Oregon | Marion | 2011 | 2023 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 12 years and 6 months | 12 | 23 | White | Male | 2023 | 06-26-2024 | |
| Watkins, Joyce | Tennessee | Davidson | 1988 | 2022 | Murder | Life | 27 | 39 | Black | Female | 2015 | 01-24-2022 | ||
| Watkins, Kimberly | Illinois | Cook | 2007 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 1 year and 6 months | 0 | 31 | Black | Female | 2007 | 03-01-2022 | |
| Watts, Oneal | New York | Bronx | 2015 | 2020 | Attempt, Violent | Term of Years | 6 years | 3 | 20 | Black | Male | 2018 | 02-16-2021 | |
| Weakley, Eric | Virginia | Culpeper | 2001 | 2022 | Murder | Term of Years | 6 years and 8 months | 5 | 16 | White | Male | 2006 | 01-26-2022 | |
| Weatherly, Harold | Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 1984 | 2007 | Attempted Murder | Term of Years | 40 years | 15 | 25 | White | Male | 1998 | 08-01-2019 | |
| Weaver, David | North Carolina | Wake | 2020 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 2 years and 11 months to 4 years and 3 months | 2 | 40 | Black | Male | 2022 | 06-27-2022 | |
| 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 | ||
| Weaver, Ricky | Idaho | Elmore | 2020 | 2024 | Solicitation | Term of Years | 15 years | 4 | 34 | White | Male | 2024 | 09-26-2024 | |
| Webb, Ricky | Tennessee | Gibson | 1978 | 2024 | Murder | Life without parole | 46 | 21 | Black | Male | 2023 | 2024 | 11-12-2024 | |
| Webster, Bernard | Maryland | Baltimore | 1983 | 2002 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 30 years | 20 | 19 | Black | Male | 2002 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Weekly, Isaac | Illinois | Cook | 2007 | 2018 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 23 | Black | Male | 2007 | 12-10-2018 | ||
| Weekly, London | Illinois | Cook | 2005 | 2024 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 15 | Black | Male | 2005 | 06-21-2024 | ||
| Welcome, Ernest | New York | Bronx | 1970 | 1977 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 years to life | 8 | 20 | Black | Male | 1977 | 03-30-2021 | |
| Weldon, Kyle | Iowa | Polk | 2015 | 2017 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 31 days | 0 | 21 | White | Male | 2015 | 01-27-2017 | |
| Wenger, Braden | California | Contra Costa | 2015 | 2016 | Other Nonviolent Misdemeanor | Term of Years | 25 days | 0 | 30 | White | Male | 2015 | 02-07-2017 | |
| Westbrooks, Lashane | New York | Kings | 2007 | 2007 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years and 6 months | 0 | 29 | Black | Male | 2007 | 09-03-2013 | |
| Westly, William | New York | Bronx | 1999 | 2002 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 20 to Life | 2 | 47 | Black | Male | 2001 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Westmoreland, Donte | Kansas | Riley | 2017 | 2021 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 7 years and 8 months. | 4 | 23 | Black | Male | 2020 | 05-04-2021 | |
| 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, Antoine | Illinois | Cook | 2003 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 21 | Black | Male | 2003 | 05-16-2022 | ||
| White, Curtis | Virginia | Loudoun | 1993 | 1994 | Murder | Not Sentenced | 1 | 31 | Black | Male | 1994 | 03-11-2013 | ||
| White, Kareem | Texas | Swisher | 2000 | 2003 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 60 years | 3 | 22 | Black | Male | 2003 | 06-09-2022 | |
| White, Kizzie | Texas | Swisher | 2000 | 2003 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 25 years | 3 | 21 | Black | Female | 2003 | 06-09-2022 | |
| White, Lionel Jr. | Illinois | Cook | 2006 | 2017 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 17 | Black | Male | 2006 | 11-28-2018 | ||
| White, Lionel Sr. | Illinois | Cook | 2006 | 2016 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 5 years | 2 | 33 | Black | Male | 2008 | 12-20-2016 | |
| White, Michael | New York | Erie | 2006 | 2015 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 5 years | 5 | 35 | Native American | Male | 2011 | 05-20-2015 | |
| White, Theodore Jr. | Missouri | Jackson | 1999 | 2005 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 50 years | 6 | 35 | White | Male | 2005 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Whitley, Drew | Pennsylvania | Allegheny | 1989 | 2006 | Murder | Life | 17 | 32 | Black | Male | 2006 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Whitley, Harold | New Jersey | Camden | 2008 | 2010 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 33 | Black | Male | 2008 | 08-29-2022 | ||
| Wigfall, Carlton | New York | New York | 2011 | 2016 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 4 years | 2 | 46 | Black | Male | 2013 | 12-04-2016 | |
| Wilbourn, Kim | Illinois | Cook | 2006 | 2019 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 2 years | 0 | 27 | Black | Male | 2007 | 02-26-2019 | |
| Wilbourn, Vondell | Illinois | Cook | 2005 | 2018 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 5 years and 6 months | 1 | 29 | Black | Male | 2006 | 12-09-2018 | |
| Wilbur, Raymond | Rhode Island | Providence | 1969 | 1974 | Other Nonviolent Felony | Term of Years | 15 years | 4 | 28 | Don't Know | Male | 1974 | 01-09-2023 | |
| 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 | |
| Wilkins, Theodore | Illinois | Cook | 2008 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 8 years | 3 | 27 | Black | Male | 2011 | 03-13-2022 | |
| Wilkinson, Robert | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 1976 | 1977 | Murder | Not Sentenced | 1 | 26 | White | Male | 1977 | |||
| Willett, Jeffery | Wisconsin | Washington | 2007 | 2010 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 30 years | 3 | 29 | White | Male | 2010 | 06-26-2012 |