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evidence indicates the 23-year-old Arridy was innocent, including false and coerced confessions, the likelihood that Arridy was not in Pueblo at the time of the killing, and an admission of guilt by someone else”); R. Warden, Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive: The Novel, the Case, and Wrong­ ful Convictions 157–158 (2005) (in 1987, Nebraska Gover­ nor Bob Kerrey pardoned William Jackson Marion, who had been executed a century earlier for the murder of John Cameron, a man who later turned up alive; the alleged victim, Cameron, had gone to Mexico to avoid a shotgun wedding). For another, the evidence that the death penalty has been wrongly imposed (whether or not it was carried out), is striking. As of 2002, this Court used the word “disturb­ ing” to describe the number of instances in which individ­ uals had been sentenced to death but later exonerated. At that time, there was evidence of approximately 60 exonerations in capital cases. Atkins, 536 U. S., at 320, n. 25; National Registry of Exonerations, online at http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about. aspx (all Internet materials as visited June 25, 2015, and available in Clerk of Court’s case file). (I use “exonera­ tion” to refer to relief from all legal consequences of a capital conviction through a decision by a prosecutor, a Governor or a court, after new evidence of the defendant’s innocence was discovered.) Since 2002, the number of exonerations in capital cases has risen to 115. Ibid.; Na­ tional Registry of Exonerations, Exonerations in the United States, 1989–2012, pp. 6–7 (2012) (Exonerations 2012 Report) (defining exoneration); accord, Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), Innocence: List of Those Freed from Death Row, online at http://www.deathpenaltyinfo. org/innocence-and-death-penalty (DPIC Innocence List) (calculating, under a slightly different definition of exon­ eration, the number of exonerations since 1973 as 154). Last year, in 2014, six death row inmates were exonerated