Innocent until proven guilty

Convicts who were exonerated

Sakae Menda, Japan

Forced to confess to murders of a Buddhist priest and his wife in 1948. In a 1983 retrial, he was found not guilty of all charges.

Randall Dale Adams, US

Convicted for the 1977 murder of a police officer but exonerated in 1988 as a result of information uncovered in the documentary The Thin Blue Line.

Steven Truscott, Canada

Convicted of schoolmate’s murder in 1959 and sentenced at age 14 to death. Conviction was quashed in 2007 as a “miscarriage of justice”.