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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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| Vaughan, James III | Ohio | Cuyahoga | 2008 | 2009 | Child Sex Abuse | Life without parole | 1 | 28 | Black | Male | 2009 | 05-08-2015 | ||
| Vela, Jesus | Texas | Midland | 2015 | 2016 | Weapon Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years | 1 | 21 | Hispanic | Male | 2016 | 03-17-2016 | |
| 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 | North Carolina | Caldwell | 1907 | 1917 | Murder | Term of Years | 26 years | 10 | 40 | White | Male | 1917 | ||
| Villalobos, Amaury | New York | Kings | 1981 | 2015 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 to life | 31 | 30 | Hispanic | Male | 2014 | 2012 | 12-18-2015 |
| Vinsonhaler, Gary Jr. | Oregon | Multnomah | 2012 | 2016 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 45 | White | Male | 2012 | 12-09-2016 | ||
| Wahlgren, Ryun | Texas | Dallas | 2015 | 2017 | Sex Offender Registration | Term of Years | 2 years | 1 | 42 | Asian | Male | 2016 | 09-25-2017 | |
| Wahlgren, Ryun | Texas | Harris | 2015 | 2017 | Sex Offender Registration | Term of Years | 2 years | 2 | 42 | Asian | Male | 2016 | 11-06-2017 | |
| Waithe, Michael | New York | Kings | 1987 | 2015 | Burglary/Unlawful Entry | Term of Years | 1 1/2 to 4 years | 2 | 22 | Black | Male | 2014 | 1988 | 02-06-2015 |
| 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, Danny | Illinois | DuPage | 2012 | 2018 | Fraud | Term of Years | 6 months | 1 | 47 | Black | Male | 2012 | 04-20-2018 | |
| Walker, Lee Dell | Michigan | Wayne | 1954 | 1972 | Murder | Life | 18 | 41 | Black | Male | 1972 | |||
| Walker, Lon | Tennessee | Putnam | 1997 | 2012 | Murder | Term of Years | 20 years | 15 | 43 | White | Male | 2011 | 2012 | 11-30-2015 |
| 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 | |
| Wallace, Robert | Georgia | Baldwin | 1980 | 1987 | Murder | Death | 7 | 29 | Black | Male | 1987 | |||
| Walls, George | Pennsylvania | Allegheny | 2003 | 2011 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 5 to 10 years | 8 | 39 | Black | Male | 2011 | 08-30-2012 | |
| Walpole, Merla | California | San Bernadino | 1975 | 1975 | Murder | Not Sentenced | 0 | 26 | Hispanic | Female | 1975 | |||
| Ward, James | Ohio | Franklin | 1991 | 1993 | Theft | Term of Years | 1 year | 1 | 34 | Black | Male | 1991 | 12-21-2018 | |
| Ward, Madeleine | Illinois | DuPage | 2006 | 2008 | Theft | Term of Years | 6 years and 7 months | 2 | 52 | White | Female | 2008 | 04-05-2013 | |
| Ware, Melonie | Georgia | DeKalb | 2005 | 2009 | Murder | Life | 1 | 30 | Black | Female | 2006 | 10-11-2011 | ||
| Ware, Robert | Illinois | Woodford | 2017 | 2022 | Assault | Term of Years | 4 years | 3 | 40 | Black | Male | 2021 | 05-31-2023 | |
| Warney, Douglas | New York | Monroe | 1997 | 2006 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 to Life | 9 | 34 | White | Male | 2006 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Warren, Dawan | Indiana | DeKalb | 1998 | 2013 | Robbery | Term of Years | 6 years | 5 | 18 | Black | Male | 2012 | 2003 | 07-24-2022 |
| Warrior, Kevin | Oklahoma | Tulsa | 2016 | 2019 | Murder | Life | 4 | 23 | Black | Male | 2019 | 11-25-2019 | ||
| Washburn, Michael | Massachusetts | Bristol | 2002 | 2003 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 4 years | 0 | 20 | White | Male | 2003 | 11-17-2017 | |
| Washington, Brandon | California | Sacramento | 2013 | 2023 | Assault | Term of Years | 8 years | 2 | 21 | Black | Male | 2015 | 04-22-2024 | |
| Washington, Earl Jr. | Virginia | Culpeper | 1984 | 2000 | Murder | Death | 17 | 22 | Black | Male | 2000 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Washington, Sean | New Jersey | Camden | 1996 | 2020 | Murder | Term of Years | 60 to life | 24 | 23 | Black | Male | 1996 | 2020 | 02-28-2020 |
| 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, Cathy | New York | Bronx | 1997 | 2012 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 to life | 15 | 27 | Black | Female | 1997 | 2012 | 12-13-2012 |
| Watkins, Jacob | Oregon | Marion | 2011 | 2023 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 12 years and 6 months | 12 | 23 | White | Male | 2023 | 06-26-2024 | |
| Weakley, Eric | Virginia | Culpeper | 2001 | 2022 | Murder | Term of Years | 6 years and 8 months | 5 | 16 | White | Male | 2006 | 01-26-2022 | |
| Weathers, Nathaniel | Texas | Harris | 2015 | 2016 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 15 days | 0 | 21 | Black | Male | 2015 | 10-04-2016 | |
| Weathington, Jennifer | Georgia | Paulding | 2013 | 2019 | Murder | Life | 1 | 19 | White | Female | 2019 | 2014 | 05-12-2019 | |
| 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 | ||
| Weeks, Carlos | New York | Kings | 1995 | 2019 | Murder | Term of Years | 27 1/2 to Life | 25 | 20 | Black | Male | 2018 | 2019 | 10-09-2019 |
| Weitzel, Robert | Utah | Davis | 2000 | 2002 | Manslaughter | Term of Years | 1 to 15 years | 1 | 39 | White | Male | 2001 | 06-27-2014 | |
| Wells, Harold | Michigan | Wayne | 1992 | 1993 | Possession of Stolen Property | Term of Years | 1 1/2 to 5 years | 1 | 24 | Black | Male | 1993 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Wells, Keith | Texas | Johnson | 1998 | 2018 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 4 years | 3 | 17 | Black | Male | 2001 | 08-07-2018 | |
| Wenger, Braden | California | Contra Costa | 2015 | 2016 | Other Nonviolent Misdemeanor | Term of Years | 25 days | 0 | 30 | White | Male | 2015 | 02-07-2017 | |
| Werkheiser, Julie | New York | Tioga | 2015 | 2024 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 11 to Life | 8 | 31 | White | Female | 2019 | 2023 | 02-08-2024 |
| West, Antonio | Fed-IL | (Northern) | 2013 | 2016 | Weapon Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 15 years | 3 | 47 | Black | Male | 2016 | 04-15-2016 | |
| West, Mark | Texas | Harris | 2014 | 2014 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 6 months | 0 | 47 | Black | Male | 2014 | 01-14-2015 | |
| Wheeler, Michael | Washington | Thurston | 2000 | 2015 | Sex Offender Registration | Term of Years | 20 days | 0 | 51 | White | Male | 2000 | 01-27-2017 | |
| Wheeler, Michael | Washington | Pierce | 2011 | 2013 | Sex Offender Registration | Term of Years | 1 year and 5 months | 1 | 61 | White | Male | 2011 | 01-27-2017 | |
| Wheeler-Whichard, Jonathan | New York | Kings | 1997 | 2009 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 to Life | 0 | 16 | Black | Male | 2007 | 1997 | 08-29-2011 |
| Whirl, Shawn | Illinois | Cook | 1991 | 2015 | Murder | Term of Years | 60 years | 24 | 20 | Black | Male | 2015 | 10-22-2015 | |
| White, George | Alabama | Coffee | 1987 | 1992 | Murder | Life | 2 | 36 | White | Male | 1989 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| White, Joseph | Nebraska | Gage | 1989 | 2008 | Murder | Life | 19 | 22 | White | Male | 2008 | 2008 | 08-29-2011 | |
| White, Michael | New York | Erie | 2006 | 2015 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 5 years | 5 | 35 | Native American | Male | 2011 | 05-20-2015 | |
| Whitehead, Ronnie | Texas | Harris | 2004 | 2014 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 6 months | 1 | 31 | White | Male | 2004 | 01-14-2015 | |
| Wilber, Danny | Wisconsin | Milwaukee | 2005 | 2022 | Murder | Life | 17 | 24 | Native American | Male | 2021 | 07-04-2022 | ||
| 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 | |
| Wiley, Kelvin | California | San Diego | 1990 | 1992 | Assault | Term of Years | 4 years | 1 | 29 | Black | Male | 1991 | 1992 | 09-07-2012 |
| Wilhoit, Gregory | Oklahoma | Osage | 1987 | 1993 | Murder | Death | 6 | 30 | White | Male | 1993 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Wilkins, Geary | Texas | Harris | 2013 | 2014 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 6 months | 0 | 40 | Black | Male | 2013 | 05-28-2014 | |
| 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 | |
| Williams, Arthur | Texas | Harris | 2005 | 2016 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 8 months | 0 | 34 | Black | Male | 2005 | 11-05-2016 | |
| Williams, Danial | Virginia | Norfolk City | 1999 | 2016 | Murder | Life without parole | 11 | 25 | White | Male | 2005 | 2009 | 12-22-2016 | |
| Williams, Darnell | Illinois | Cook | 2017 | 2020 | Other Violent Misdemeanor | Probation | 0 | 36 | Black | Male | 2017 | 2017 | 06-28-2024 | |
| Williams, Demarko | Illinois | Cook | 2018 | 2023 | Other Nonviolent Felony | Term of Years | 10 years | 5 | 38 | Black | Male | 2023 | 08-13-2024 | |
| Williams, Eugene | Alabama | Jackson | 1931 | 1937 | Sexual Assault | Death | 6 | 15 | Black | Male | 1937 | |||
| Williams, George | North Carolina | Onslow | 1922 | 1928 | Murder | Death | 5 | Black | Male | 1928 | ||||
| Williams, Gregory | Texas | Lubbock | 2018 | 2023 | Sex Offender Registration | Term of Years | 2 years | 4 | 55 | Black | Male | 2022 | 04-19-2024 | |
| Williams, Joe Sidney Jr. | Texas | McLennan | 1987 | 1993 | Murder | Life | 6 | 19 | Black | Male | 1993 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Williams, Robert | Illinois | Kankakee | 2017 | 2021 | Assault | Term of Years | 9 years | 3 | 28 | Black | Male | 2020 | 12-10-2021 | |
| Williamson, Jack | Florida | Broward | 1933 | 1942 | Murder | Death | 9 | 19 | Black | Male | 1942 | 02-11-2021 | ||
| Willing, Rusty | Illinois | Adams | 2016 | 2020 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 30 years | 2 | 34 | White | Male | 2018 | 06-23-2020 | |
| Willis, Patrick | California | Alameda | 2013 | 2021 | Murder | Life without parole | 8 | 28 | Black | Male | 2021 | 06-18-2021 | ||
| Wills, Ruben | New York | Queens | 2017 | 2021 | Fraud | Term of Years | 2 to 6 years | 2 | 38 | Black | Male | 2019 | 05-25-2021 | |
| Wilmoth, Franklin | Ohio | Portage | 1994 | 2000 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 3 years | 1 | 51 | White | Male | 1995 | 10-18-2018 | |
| Wilson, Albert | Kansas | Douglas | 2019 | 2021 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 12 years and 3 months | 2 | 20 | Black | Male | 2021 | 03-21-2022 | |
| Wilson, Carol Jean | Michigan | Wayne | 2011 | 2013 | Forgery | Probation | 0 | 57 | Black | Female | 2011 | 12-30-2013 | ||
| Wilson, Dale | Oregon | Marion | 2016 | 2022 | Burglary/Unlawful Entry | Term of Years | 4 years | 4 | 34 | White | Male | 2016 | 2019 | 04-24-2024 |
| Wilson, David | Florida | Miami-Dade | 1967 | 1971 | Murder | Term of Years | 20 years | 4 | 23 | Black | Male | 1971 | ||
| Wilson, Donald | Indiana | Gibson | 1995 | 1997 | Other Violent Felony | Term of Years | 2 years and 2 months | 1 | 42 | White | Male | 1995 | 1996 | 09-29-2017 |
| Wilson, Elon | Virginia | Fairfax | 2019 | 2021 | Weapon Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years and 1 month | 2 | 23 | Black | Male | 2021 | 11-12-2024 | |
| 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, Johnny Lee | Missouri | Lawrence | 1987 | 1995 | Murder | Life without parole | 8 | 20 | White | Male | 1989 | 1995 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Wilson, Sharrif | New York | Kings | 1994 | 2014 | Murder | Term of Years | 9 to Life | 20 | 15 | Black | Male | 1994 | 2014 | 02-11-2014 |
| Wilson, Theopolis | Wisconsin | Racine | 1989 | 1991 | Burglary/Unlawful Entry | Term of Years | 5 years | 2 | 22 | Black | Male | 1991 | 08-01-2012 | |
| 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 | |
| Winslow, Thomas | Nebraska | Gage | 1990 | 2009 | Accessory to Murder | Term of Years | 50 years | 18 | 19 | White | Male | 2008 | 2008 | 08-29-2011 |
| Winston, J'Avarus | Texas | Harris | 2015 | 2016 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 17 | Black | Male | 2015 | 05-31-2016 | ||
| Wirkkala, Luke | Oregon | Deschutes | 2014 | 2021 | Murder | Life | 7 | 32 | White | Male | 2021 | 04-28-2021 | ||
| Witt, Drayton | Arizona | Maricopa | 2002 | 2012 | Murder | Term of Years | 20 years | 10 | 18 | White | Male | 2012 | 2012 | 11-01-2012 |
| Womble, Willie | North Carolina | Granville | 1976 | 2014 | Murder | Term of Years | 80 years | 38 | 21 | Black | Male | 2014 | 10-17-2014 | |
| Wood, Danny | Indiana | Bartholomew | 1987 | 1990 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 12 years | 4 | 26 | White | Male | 1990 | 06-16-2020 | |
| Woods, Cedric | Texas | Harris | 2007 | 2024 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 90 days | 0 | 38 | Black | Male | 2007 | 03-27-2024 |