Database of convicted people said to be innocent includes 150 allegedly wrongfully executed.

New York has the dubious distinction of leading all states with 8 wrongfully executed defendants.

Asked whether he agreed with Mr. Bush that no one had been wrongfully executed under his watch, Mr. Baird said: "Everyone in Texas hopes and prays that that's the case.

Yesterday, Willingham's stepmother, Eugenia Willingham, insisted in the Star-Telegram that Willingham had been wrongfully executed.

James Bednar, executive director of the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, said there was no basis "at this point" to believe that anyone had been wrongfully executed because of her testimony.

A 1980 Amnesty-International report states that there were 438 victims, including individuals who were tried and wrongfully executed after the fire itself.

Blessed John Gavan (1640-1679) was an English Jesuit and victim of the Popish Plot, wrongfully executed for conspiracy to murder Charles II.

Framed, then wrongfully executed.

She contended that Williams was wrongfully executed and could not have possibly committed the murder, and was convicted and executed because of ineffective legal counsel and because poor people are disproportionately executed.