All 13 Uses
exonerate
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Just Mercy
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- Scores of innocent people have been exonerated after being sentenced to death and nearly executed.†
p. 16.3 *exonerated = freed from blame OR (more rarely) freed from an obligation
- Recently, an effort has been launched to exonerate George Stinney.†
p. 159.2exonerate = free from blame OR (more rarely) free from an obligation
- I wanted him to know that we had dramatic new evidence of innocence that exonerated Walter and that justice demanded his immediate release.†
p. 167.9exonerated = freed from blame OR (more rarely) freed from an obligation
- The New York Times covered his exoneration and homecoming in a front-page story.†
p. 242.1
- The Death Penalty Information Center reported that Walter was the fiftieth person to be exonerated in the modern era.†
p. 242.7exonerated = freed from blame OR (more rarely) freed from an obligation
- The movie had played a role in Adams's exoneration, and he was released from Texas's death row not long after its release.†
p. 242.9
- But there had never been anything like the coverage surrounding Walter's exoneration.†
p. 243.1
- Politicians would sometimes say provocative things—such as that his exoneration just proved the system works—which irritated and angered me.†
p. 243.6
- In 1998, Walter and I were asked to go to Chicago to attend a national conference where exonerated former death row prisoners were planning to gather.†
p. 249.1exonerated = freed from blame OR (more rarely) freed from an obligation
- In many states, the number of exonerations exceeded the number of executions.†
p. 249.2
- Our time in Chicago with other exonerated former death row prisoners was energizing for Walter, who seemed more motivated than ever to talk about his experience.†
p. 249.4exonerated = freed from blame OR (more rarely) freed from an obligation
- He had stood strong in the face of injustice, and his exonerated witness might just make the rest of us a little safer, slightly more protected from the abuse of power and the false accusations that had almost killed him.†
p. 313.4
- The evidence confirmed his innocence and Mr. Hinton became the 152nd person in America exonerated and proved innocent after having been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.†
p. 315.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(exonerate) to free someone from blame
or more rarely:
to free someone from an obligation - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)