WASHINGTON D.C.: About one in 25 inmates sentenced to death in the United States was likely wrongly convicted, a study said on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

Estimating the rate of false convictions, which the study put at 4.1 percent, is no easy task since there is no central database and many are never identified, in part because some sentences are commuted.

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