Exoneration

Exoneration occurs when a criminal conviction is reversed, whether through a demonstration of the convicted person's innocence, the discovery of a flaw in the conviction itself, or some other legal remedy. The process is especially contentious in death penalty cases, most of all when new evidence favoring the convicted person emerges only after an execution has already taken place. Used as a verb, to exonerate can also carry the more informal, everyday sense of absolving a person of blame outside any formal legal proceeding. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/