| Greg Abbott signed a bill in June creating the commission, which is charged for one year with studying exonerations since Jan. |
| By now most honest people concede that the deterrent effect of execution is non-existent and few are unaware of an increasing number of death row exonerations. |
| Of the 328 exonerations they identified in the intervening years, 145 involved DNA evidence. |
| It did not deliver all the exonerations for which Downing Street was looking. |
| Meanwhile, the wave of exonerations continues across the country. |
| You can see from the blue on this map, exonerations have been won in 31 states. |
