That stat is off by a couple orders of magnitude. The total number of death penalty convictions overturned by DNA evidence is 29 (as of 2025). There are a couple thousand death row inmates right now, and the denominator here is all the people who were on death row in the last 20+ years. That's a rate of significantly <1%.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/first-death-row-exoneration-inv...

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golem14 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Shouldn't the denominator be the number of people actually executed ? 691 in the last 20 years, for instance ?

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bouncycastle 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

it doesn't matter if it's 29 or 2900. Even 1 is wrong.

	▲	wyldberry an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The commenter isn't litigating that claim, they are litigating the claim that at least 1 out of 10 of those on death row were false.