Talk:List of exonerated death row inmates

message: Listing Troy Davis here is inaccurate. He has been executed, but not yet exonerated. I hope he can be listed here some day, but for now I've removed his name. --Aubrig (talk) 12:50, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Troy Davis

message: I linked to a news article explaining the specifics of the case. I think this will be helpful in understanding/explaining the situation. I think it should be reinserted.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.110.75.80 (talk) 20:30, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reinserted Link

message: * I am considering expanding this list to include people sentenced for stoning who had the sentence reversed. However, a lot of these occur outside a countries legal system or a tribal legal system is the only effective system in place, so these may not belong. Suggestions are welcome. Antonrojo 16:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Candidates for inclusion: Amina Lawal, Nigeria 2004
* That's an interesting idea, but I suspect most people who are looking for this page are seeking a list of individuals who were tried within a legal system.  That's the typical meaning of "death row inmates."  In the case you suggested, Amina Lawal, it looks like she might have been formally sentenced by a recognized court of law, though there seems to be some debate about whether she was actually sentenced.  If she was indeed sentenced, then her case might warrant inclusion in the Nigeria section of this article.  Correct2010 (talk) 01:53, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What to include on this list 

message: No evidence has come forward to prove his innocence and while the arson evidense has been called into question there are numerous eye witness accounts of his threatening his ex girlfriend before and after the fire and predicting that the building in question would burn on the night of the deadly blaze. More than that HE PLEAD NO CONTEST. He was never exonerated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smb2a (talk • contribs) 20:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ken Richey? 

message: Presumably this is the reason for the confusing label. The reason is laziness/lack of time on my part. The first footnote is a link to the full list and anyone with the time and inclination can fill in the blanks. Antonrojo (talk) 12:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There are no more blank numbers. The conviction years and states are on the deathpenalty.info list and I only copied some over. Antonrojo (talk) 13:03, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Blank numbers

message: The title of this article and its first sentence are inaccurate. The word "exonerated" means found to be innocent after initially being convicted of a crime. The first sentence states that the list is people who were wrongfully convicted. In actuality, the list includes people who don't fit that criteria: those whose pardoned or who had a death sentence commuted. Pardon/commutation is not synonymous with exoneration. It is typically a prerogative of the executive branch of government in which a showing regarding guilt or innocence is not necessarily required. Pardon/commutation can in fact even be granted by an official who believes the condemned to be guilty but who does not approve of the sentence. So it's inappropriate to includes people like the recipients of Saddam Hussein's 2002 blanket pardon. Obviously, Hussein wasn't judging every single Iraqi prisoner to be not guilty. Rather, it was a political act. Therefore, I think either all pardons and commutations should be removed from this list or the title should be changed to something like "List of inmates removed from death row or posthumous pardoned." --JamesAM (talk) 01:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deceptive title 

message: Nathson Fields was acquitted and exonerated yesterday from Death Row.  I updated the article by using this link on the story. --Angeldeb82 (talk) 22:44, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update on US Exonerations 

message: Should she be added?
NPR article Ikip (talk) 21:29, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Lena Baker

message: The second paragraph of this article says, "This list is based on information from the Death Penalty Information Center...."  I believe this should be removed, for two reasons.  First, sources should be mentioned in the citations, unless it is crucial for understanding the rest of the article (which I believe is not the case here).  Second, other sources have also been used in updates to this article, and I too would like to use other sources.
Unless someone objects within the next several days, I will remove this sentence.  Correct2010 (talk) 02:09, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citing the source in the second paragraph 

message: Currently, all the names--particularly in the United States section--are presented somewhat inefficiently.  I think it would be much clearer if the information were presented in a table format.  
Unless someone objects within the next several days, I will incorporate the information into a table.  Correct2010 (talk) 07:26, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presenting the information in a different format 

message: I read that former death row inmate Timothy Hennis was convicted on April 8, 2010, of the same murders.  Here's the link.  I'll try to reduce the number of exonerated death row inmates by one, for now. --Angeldeb82 (talk) 17:33, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timothy Hennis convicted again 

message: I notice that this article is linked to from Tim Cole but that Cole is not included here. Should he be? →Wordbuilder (talk) 14:40, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind. He was not on death row. → Wordbuilder (talk) 04:49, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Tim Cole]] 

message: The Texas case that came up when Rick Perry announced his bid for the presidency, the one with the white trash father who failed to rescue his kids from their burning home, what was the guy's name? He was executed and the case has drawn a lot of interest in particular because of the shitty investigative work involved (i.e. the investigator saying he was a "satanist" because he liked rock music and arsoned the house on purpose as part of a ritual, etc.) that was revealed by outside investigators, after the fact. --76.115.67.114 (talk) 06:28, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Pending Texas case(Cameron Todd Willingham)

message: Print the names of the states where the convictions were overturned. It's shame they are not listed. No one should be trying to hide the trend which is there. Shame on the states for having such constant failure in their legal systems. 101.51.134.59 (talk) 07:31, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  US states where convictions were reversed 

message: There are numerous external link within the article itself. Shouldn't these be at the bottom of the page in its own section?
I've always known links in the article to lead to other wikipedia articles no external links. 74.79.13.34 (talk) 22:07, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's up with all the external link within the article?