In the year 2015, the U.S. set a new record for the number of exonerations of persons wrongly convicted and imprisoned.
"The rate of exonerations has been increasing dramatically for several years, and 2015 set a new record. Last year, 149 people were exonerated after being wrongfully incarcerated for, on average, more than 14 years.
The National Registry of Exonerations reports that the number of exonerations in America has doubled since 2011. We now average nearly three exonerations a week."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...0374e4****033aaf3da9
Four of these cases were from Alabama:
http://www.law.umich.edu/speci...&FilterValue2=AL
They included this case, in which the supposed "gold standard" of criminal forensics evidence, fingerprint evidence and interpretation, proved not so golden after all--and after this man had been wrongly imprisoned for nearly 20 years.
http://www.law.umich.edu/speci...ail.aspx?caseid=4768
