How to Use exoneree in a Sentence

exoneree

noun
  • Previously the board would decide how much to pay an exoneree, when to pay and whether to pay them at all.
    — Washington Post, 2021-10-06
  • Friedman says DuBoise’s outlook on life is typical of an exoneree.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 2020-11-23
  • Transitioning to life as a free man was not easy, but Deskovic has not wasted a single moment of it as an exoneree.
    — Michelle Malkin, National Review, 2019-06-05
  • In advocacy circles, Steese is counted among the exonerees.
    — vanityfair.com, 2017-05-26
  • There's something so incredible about being around anyone of these exonerees who have been through these unimaginable nightmares.
    — Ray Rogers, Billboard, 2018-07-10
  • Under a new Indiana law, exonerees are now entitled to compensation for their time spent behind bars.
    — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 2020-04-24
  • Johnson also joined other exonerees in January to meet with lawmakers at the state Capitol.
    — Darrell Smith, sacbee, 2018-02-23
  • These days, its website hosts a standardized application form for potential exonerees and a list of guidelines that weren’t easily accessible before.
    — Maura Ewing, The Atlantic, 2017-07-31
  • Among the group's members are death row exonerees, including Ray Krone — one of Arizona's most famous inmates to be exonerated.
    — Robert Gundran, azcentral, 2018-05-04
  • Under the bill, an exoneree would apply to an administrative law judge, and compensation would be based on a formula set to the Maryland median household income.
    — baltimoresun.com, 2021-03-31
  • Some of our upcoming stories include: A look at how the wrongfully convicted have been affected by divergent state policies on compensating exonerees for their time in prison.
    — Mike Dang, Longreads, 2017-10-17
  • These exonerees hail from all across the country: from California to Kentucky, Illinois to Pennsylvania.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 2020-03-09
  • The act shortens time allowed for death-penalty appeals and has gained criticism from death row exonerees, like Anthony Ray Hinton, and defense attorneys across the state.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 2017-12-29
  • The website provides a series of petitions for people to sign, where your signature can help cases advance in the legal system, help lawmakers change policy, and help exonerees get compensation, and more.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 2020-04-16
  • The country’s longest serving exoneree, Anthony Mazza, survived 47 years and two months in prison in Massachusetts before he was freed earlier this year.
    — al, 2021-11-24
  • The names include former prosecutors and senior U.S. government officials, juvenile justice experts, law enforcement authorities, psychologists who specialize in the study of false confessions and more than two dozen exonerees.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 2019-10-24
  • One Massachusetts exoneree, Gary Cifizzari, served 35 years for a conviction based entirely on the comparison of bitemarks — an evidentiary technique that is no longer considered scientifically sound.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2022-04-30

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