[Cite web|url=http://www.wcl.american.edu/innocenceproject/fact.htm|title=Facts about Wrongful Convictions|accessdate=2006-12-12|publisher=Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project] ]In 2007, after an investigation began by The Innocence Project, James Calvin Tillman was exonerated after serving 18 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. His sentence was 45 years. However, it is also quite important to note that a large number of the Innocence Project's successes have resulted in rescuing innocent people from Death Row. This has fueled American opposition to the death penalty, and has probably influenced those US states that have more recently banned or at least postponed judicial executions.fact|date=April 2008
In The Innocent Man by John Grisham, Dennis Fritz, one of the main characters asked for the help from the Innocence Project for the murder of Debra Carter.
ee also
*The Justice Project (Australia)
*Capital punishment in the United States
*Ken Wyniemko, one of the defendants exonerated by the Innocence Project
*Benjamin LaGuer
*Douglas Echols
*James Calvin Tillman
References
External links
* [http://www.innocenceproject.org/ innocenceproject.org] - The Cardozo School of Law Innocence Project
* [http://www.innocencenetwork.org/ The Innocence Network]
* [http://www.scu.edu/law/ncip/ Northern California Innocence Project] at Santa Clara University School of Law
* [http://www.ipoftexas.org Innocence Project of Texas]
* [http://www.thr-investigations.com/lebrewjones Another wrongful conviction that deserves attention of the Innocence Project] The case of Lebrew Jones and Michaelanne 'Micki' Hall
* [http://www.innocenceprojectmidwest.org Midwestern Innocence Project] - In Kansas City covering AR, OK, KS, MO, NE, IA; Jay Swearingen, Director
* [http://www.cwsl.edu/main/default.asp?nav=cip.asp&body=cip/home.asp Innocence Project] - California Western School of Law Innocence Project- covering both California and Hawai'i.
* [http://www.law.uc.edu/academics/rosenthal_index.shtml/ Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice - Ohio Innocence Project] - Cincinnati College of Law
* [http://ga-innocenceproject.org/ Georgia Innocence Project]
* [http://www.law.wisc.edu/fjr/innocence/ The Wisconsin Innocence Project]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/student_life/article1685105.ece Times Online article about Innocence Projects in the UK]
* [http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/161258.htm Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial] - National Institute of Justice
* [http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/dnaevid.txt The above study in text file format]
* [http://www.truthinjustice.org/ips.htm Truth in Justice]
* [http://www.cooley.edu/clinics/innocence.htm Innocence Project] - The Thomas M. Cooley Law School
* [http://www.innocenceproject.ca/ Innocence Project at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada]
* [http://justicedenied.org "Justice:Denied" is the world's only magazine devoted to reporting on miscarriages of justice.]
* [http://forejustice.org/search_idb.htm Database of wrongful convictions worldwide]
* [http://www.dallasobserver.com/2008-02-07/news/life-after-dna-exoneration/ Returning to Life After DNA Exoneration]
* http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/19/dna.cleared/index.html Wiley Fountain exonerated in Dallas]
