Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously.
On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent.
[3][4] In March 2023, the Supreme Court of India freed Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary after he spent 28 years, six months and 23 days in custody, and was freed from Nagpur jail.
At the time of conviction, Chaudhary was 12 years and six months.
[5] 1983 1989 2024 2012 2016 1966 1969 1973 1998 As of February 2, 2024, the Innocence Database maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center shows 196 exonerations of prisoners on death row in the United States since 1973.