executions

We like to think that our criminal-justice system is infallible, but sadly, mistakes do get made. The ultimate miscarriage of justice is when an innocent person goes to the death chamber for a crime he or she didn’t commit. In this list, we’ll share 10 tragic stories about wrongfully executed people who were exonerated after their deaths. Johnny Frank Garrett (1992) If you were going to make up a horrible crime, raping and murdering a 72-year-old nun would probably be one of the worst one you could think of. When cops in Texas brought in 17-year-old Johnny Frank Garrett, he admitted to the crime, but a ...