Does anybody know of people in death row who were executed then later found not guilty?

I need names to back up my research paper. I need people who have actually been executed and then later on found to be not guilty. please and thank you !

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Larry Griffin
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/opinio...

Louis Lazarus
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf11...

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/...
http://www.aclu.org/capital/index.html...
http://www.justicedenied.org/executed.ht...
many people have Ben executed in this country and later found to be not guilty of the crime,is a tubule thing, that is because their defense was not so good
I don't want to sound snarkey, but as a 45-year-old guy who got his undergraduate degree when we were still using card catalogues and not computers, have you thought about looking through your public library or the library of your local institution of higher learning?

One author who writes a lot on this topic is Michael Radelet, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Here's are some recent references for articles of his in edited books:

In Spite of Innocence (MLR, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance Putnam). Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1992.

"The Execution of the Innocent." Law and Contemporary Problems (published by Duke Law School) 61 (1998): 105-24 (MLR and Hugo Adam Bedau).

“The Execution of the Innocent.” Pp. 225-44 in James Acker, Charles Lanier, and Robert Bohm (ed.), America's Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2003 (MLR & Hugo Adam Bedau)(an earlier version was published at pp. 223-242 of the first edition of this book).

"The Execution of the Innocent." Pp. 223-242 in James Acker, Charles Lanier, and Robert Bohm (ed.), America's Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.

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