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, 6 Oct. 2021
• 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, 5 June 2019
• Friedman says DuBoise’s outlook on life is typical of an exoneree.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
• In advocacy circles, Steese is counted among the exonerees.
  — vanityfair.com, 26 May 2017
• Johnson also joined other exonerees in January to meet with lawmakers at the state Capitol.
  — Darrell Smith, sacbee, 23 Feb. 2018
• 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, 29 Dec. 2017
• The law that bears his name sets the amount an exoneree is eligible to receive for each year of imprisonment to the state’s annual median income, averaged over five years.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2021
• These exonerees hail from all across the country: from California to Kentucky, Illinois to Pennsylvania.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 9 Mar. 2020
• Under a new Indiana law, exonerees are now entitled to compensation for their time spent behind bars.
  — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 24 Apr. 2020
• There's something so incredible about being around anyone of these exonerees who have been through these unimaginable nightmares.
  — Ray Rogers, Billboard, 10 July 2018
• 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, 4 May 2018
• The General Assembly has also considered bills in recent years detailing how much exonerees should be paid.
  — Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019
• 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, 24 Nov. 2021
• That’s a problem, innocence advocates say, because the state does not pay interest and because payments are terminated upon the exoneree’s death.
  — al, 24 Nov. 2021
• 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, 31 Mar. 2021
• That stipulation denies compensation for any exoneree with more than one non-violent felony.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
• 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, 17 Oct. 2017
• 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, 16 Apr. 2020
• 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, 31 July 2017
• 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, 30 Apr. 2022
• 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, 24 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024