“Exonerated posthumously” means to be cleared of blame or wrongdoing after one’s death, typically in cases of wrongful conviction or accusation. It signifies that a person’s name is officially cleared, even though they are no longer alive to experience the vindication.

“As of February 2, 2024, the Innocence Database maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center shows 196 exonerations of prisoners on death row in the United States since 1973″.

SOURCE:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_inmates

“Capital punishment fails to deliver justice. “That’s all capital punishment is — it’s the transferring of pain.”

“We can’t prevent the execution of innocents, and we know for a fact in other states that we have executed innocent people,” Brett Farley, the state coordinator of Oklahoma Conservatives Concerned