Exonerated U.S Facts and Figures

From http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ or an Innocence and the Death Penalty Website.

In the United States in General:
-As of May 2, 2008, there have been 129 exonerations in 26 different States.
-From 1973-1999, there was an average of 3.1 exonerations per year. From 2000-2007, there has been an average of 5 exonerations per year.

----Exonerations by Race----
Black
66
White
50
Latino
12
Other
1

$$$-The burden of costs on cases where the death penalty is seeked is enormous. From 1982-1997, the added costs to those trials was estimated at $1.6 billion (NBER Working Paper No. w8382, Issued in July 2001)