Are factually guilty people ever exonerated by DNA evidence?

1989: The first DNA exoneration took place; 37: States where exonerations have been won; 20 of 356 people exonerated served time on death row ... of years served; 26.5: Average age of exonerees at the time of their wrongful conviction; 42. read more

Gary Dotson The rape that wasn't — the nation's first DNA exoneration The forensic DNA age dawned with little fanfare on August 14, 1989, when the emerging technology exonerated a hapless high school dropout from a working-class suburb of Chicago of a rape that in fact had not occurred. read more

Bloodworth was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of a nine-year old girl. He was exonerated with DNA finger-printing evidence. Frank Lee Smith: Unfortunately, Frank Lee Smith died of cancer on death row in 2000. He never lived to be exonerated with DNA evidence. read more