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| Name | State | County | Convicted | Exonerated | Crime | Sentence | Term of Years | Years lost | Age | Race | Sex | Year of recantation | Date of Release | Posting Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malinski, Morris | New York | Kings | 1943 | 1946 | Murder | Death | 3 | 26 | White | Male | 1946 | |||
| Mallet, Otis Jr. | Texas | Harris | 2011 | 2020 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 8 years | 3 | 52 | Black | Male | 2014 | 08-20-2020 | |
| Mallet, Steven | Texas | Harris | 2009 | 2021 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 10 months | 0 | 49 | Black | Male | 2009 | 06-16-2021 | |
| Manfredi, John | New York | Kings | 1989 | 1994 | Bribery | Term of Years | 2 to 6 years | 4 | 48 | White | Male | 1993 | 09-26-2014 | |
| Mangum, Verle | Colorado | Mesa | 2003 | 2023 | Murder | Life without parole | 20 | 17 | White | Male | 2023 | 09-19-2023 | ||
| Mannava, Venkata | Fed-MD | 2014 | 2017 | Fraud | Probation | 0 | 44 | Asian | Male | 2014 | 06-01-2017 | |||
| Mansfield, Troy | Texas | Williamson | 1993 | 2016 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 3 months | 0 | 25 | White | Male | 1993 | 01-30-2018 | |
| Mapp, Derrick | Illinois | Cook | 2006 | 2020 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 4 years | 2 | 33 | Black | Male | 2008 | 01-19-2021 | |
| Marcinkiewicz, Theodore | Illinois | Cook | 1933 | 1950 | Murder | Term of Years | 99 years | 16 | 25 | White | Male | 1950 | ||
| Marcucci, Paul | Massachusetts | Bristol | 2011 | 2016 | Arson | Term of Years | 8 to 10 years | 5 | 47 | White | Male | 2016 | 08-04-2016 | |
| Marez, Vincent | Arizona | Maricopa | 2018 | 2019 | Traffic Offense | Term of Years | 1 day | 0 | 20 | Hispanic | Male | 2018 | 09-05-2024 | |
| Marino, Richard J. | New York | Monroe | 1976 | 1978 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 years to life | 2 | 32 | White | Male | 1978 | ||
| Marotta, Thomas E. | New York | Monroe | 1976 | 1978 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 years to life | 1 | 30 | White | Male | 1978 | ||
| Marsh, Guy Gordon | Anne Arundel | 1973 | 1987 | Murder | Life | 14 | 25 | White | Male | 1987 | ||||
| Marshall, James | Illinois | Cook | 1991 | 2024 | Murder | Term of Years | 60 years | 28 | 32 | Black | Male | 2019 | 08-28-2024 | |
| Marshall, Joseph | Texas | Swisher | 2000 | 2003 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 20 | Black | Male | 2000 | 06-01-2022 | ||
| Marshall, Ronnie | Tennessee | Sumner | 1990 | 1996 | Murder | Life | 5 | 28 | White | Male | 1996 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Martin, Darnell | Illinois | Cook | 2004 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 22 | Black | Male | 2004 | 02-14-2022 | ||
| Martin, Doris | Texas | Harris | 2011 | 2024 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 180 days | 0 | 49 | Black | Female | 2011 | 10-02-2024 | |
| Martin, Garland | Texas | Midland | 1999 | 2024 | Murder | Life | 25 | 35 | White | Male | 2024 | 09-11-2024 | ||
| Martin, Kevin | District of Columbia | 1984 | 2014 | Manslaughter | Term of Years | 15 to Life | 25 | 17 | Black | Male | 2009 | 07-21-2014 | ||
| Martin, Wayne | New York | Kings | 2010 | 2016 | Murder | Life without parole | 6 | 35 | Black | Male | 2016 | 09-12-2016 | ||
| Martin, Willie | Illinois | Cook | 2007 | 2018 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years and 6 months | 1 | 24 | Black | Male | 2008 | 12-09-2018 | |
| Martinez, Angelo | New York | Queens | 1986 | 2002 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 to Life | 16 | 19 | Hispanic | Male | 2002 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Martinez, Antonio | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 1990 | 2020 | Murder | Life | 30 | 37 | Hispanic | Male | 2020 | 11-09-2020 | ||
| Martinez, Ruben Jr. | California | Los Angeles | 2008 | 2019 | Robbery | Term of Years | 40 years and 8 months | 12 | Hispanic | Male | 2019 | 11-18-2019 | ||
| Martorano, Raymond | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 1984 | 1999 | Murder | Life without parole | 15 | 53 | White | Male | 1999 | 11-17-2014 | ||
| Mason, Terrence | New York | Queens | 1987 | 1995 | Robbery | Term of Years | 10 to 20 years | 7 | 32 | Black | Male | 1994 | 12-03-2013 | |
| Massey, Shawn Giovanni | North Carolina | Mecklenburg | 1999 | 2010 | Kidnapping | Term of Years | 11 1/2 to 15 1/4 years | 11 | 25 | Black | Male | 2010 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Masters, Timothy | Colorado | Larimer | 1999 | 2008 | Murder | Life | 9 | 15 | White | Male | 2008 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Masterson, Kerry | Illinois | Cook | 2011 | 2017 | Murder | Term of Years | 58 years | 6 | 23 | Hispanic | Female | 2017 | 11-10-2017 | |
| Mata, Laura | Texas | Swisher | 1999 | 2003 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 5 years | 4 | 21 | Hispanic | Female | 2003 | 06-07-2022 | |
| Mathews, Aaron | Texas | Harris | 2013 | 2023 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 180 days | 0 | 25 | Black | Male | 2014 | 05-01-2023 | |
| Mathis, Kelly | Florida | Seminole | 2013 | 2017 | Fraud | Term of Years | 6 years | 0 | 59 | White | Male | 2013 | 04-19-2017 | |
| Matsumoto, Keith | Hawaii | Honolulu | 2014 | 2020 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 6 months | 1 | 54 | Asian | Male | 2014 | 12-07-2020 | |
| Matthews, Brent | Fed-MD | 2011 | 2017 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years and 10 months | 2 | 36 | Black | Male | 2013 | 06-06-2019 | ||
| Matthews, Ryan | Louisiana | Jefferson | 1999 | 2004 | Murder | Death | 5 | 17 | Black | Male | 2004 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Maxson, Mark | Illinois | Cook | 1994 | 2016 | Murder | Life without parole | 23 | 31 | Black | Male | 2016 | 10-02-2016 | ||
| Maxwell, Bobby Joe | California | Los Angeles | 1984 | 2018 | Murder | Life without parole | 34 | 29 | Black | Male | 2018 | 08-16-2018 | ||
| Mayberry, David | Illinois | Cook | 2006 | 2020 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 1 year | 0 | 35 | Black | Male | 2006 | 04-13-2020 | |
| Mayes, Larry | Indiana | Lake | 1982 | 2001 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 80 years | 19 | 30 | Black | Male | 2001 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Maynard, William A. | New York | New York | 1970 | 1974 | Manslaughter | Term of Years | 10 to 20 years | 3 | 33 | Black | Male | 1974 | ||
| Mays, Anthony | Illinois | Cook | 2006 | 2020 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 2 years and 6 months | 1 | 24 | Black | Male | 2007 | 02-26-2020 | |
| Mays, Anthony | Illinois | Cook | 2003 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years | 1 | 20 | Black | Male | 2004 | 02-13-2022 | |
| Mays, Anthony | Illinois | Cook | 2004 | 2022 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 2 years | 1 | 22 | Black | Male | 2005 | 05-10-2022 | |
| McAllister, Patrick | Washington | Jefferson | 2012 | 2018 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 20 years and 10 months | 5 | 46 | White | Male | 2017 | 05-17-2018 | |
| McCallum, David | New York | Kings | 1986 | 2014 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 to life | 28 | 16 | Black | Male | 2014 | 10-16-2014 | |
| McCann, Raymond II | Michigan | St. Joseph | 2015 | 2017 | Perjury | Term of Years | 1 year and 8 months | 1 | 45 | White | Male | 2015 | 12-11-2017 | |
| McCarty, Curtis | Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 1986 | 2007 | Murder | Death | 21 | 20 | White | Male | 2007 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| McCarty, Desmond | Illinois | Cook | 2001 | 2017 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 4 years | 2 | 17 | Black | Male | 2003 | 08-07-2024 | |
| McClain, Anthony | Ohio | Hamilton | 1995 | 2006 | Murder | Term of Years | 18 to life | 11 | 35 | Black | Male | 2006 | 09-05-2013 | |
| McClaugherty, Charles | New Mexico | Bernalillo | 2001 | 2008 | Murder | Life | 2 | 18 | White | Male | 2003 | 07-02-2014 | ||
| McCollum, Claude | Michigan | Ingham | 2006 | 2007 | Murder | Life | 2 | 26 | Black | Male | 2007 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| McCollum, Henry | North Carolina | Robeson | 1984 | 2014 | Murder | Death | 30 | 19 | Black | Male | 2014 | 09-02-2014 | ||
| McCoy, Sherman | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 2016 | 2019 | Murder | Life without parole | 3 | 20 | Black | Male | 2019 | 05-22-2019 | ||
| McCoy, Troshawn | Illinois | Cook | 1998 | 2017 | Murder | Term of Years | 55 years | 18 | 17 | Black | Male | 2017 | 03-01-2017 | |
| McCray, Antron | New York | New York | 1990 | 2002 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 5 to 10 years | 6 | 15 | Black | Male | 1996 | 08-29-2011 | |
| McCray, Brian | Virginia | Norfolk City | 1993 | 1994 | Murder | Term of Years | 43 years | 1 | 24 | Black | Male | 1994 | 10-12-2011 | |
| McCray, Vincent | Texas | Swisher | 2000 | 2003 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years | 1 | 36 | Black | Male | 2001 | 06-01-2022 | |
| McCrimmon, Christopher | Arizona | Pima | 1993 | 1997 | Murder | Death | 0 | 20 | Black | Male | 1993 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| McDaniels, Anthony | Illinois | Cook | 2011 | 2018 | Weapon Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 12 years | 7 | 40 | Black | Male | 2018 | 11-28-2018 | |
| McDonald, Octayvia | Illinois | Cook | 2005 | 2018 | Drug Possession or Sale | Probation | 0 | 17 | Black | Female | 2005 | 12-09-2018 | ||
| McDowell, John Jack | New Mexico | Sandoval | 2014 | 2019 | Murder | Term of Years | 30 to Life | 5 | 54 | White | Male | 2019 | 02-10-2020 | |
| McDowell, Vidale | Michigan | Wayne | 2003 | 2004 | Murder | Life | 1 | 18 | Black | Male | 2004 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| McGee, Jameel | Fed-MI | Western | 2006 | 2009 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 9 years | 3 | 25 | Black | Male | 2009 | 11-12-2024 | |
| McGinnis, Damian | Texas | Harris | 2013 | 2023 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 7 months | 1 | 24 | Black | Male | 2014 | 01-09-2024 | |
| McGowan, Thomas | Texas | Dallas | 1985 | 2008 | Sexual Assault | Life | 22 | 24 | Black | Male | 2008 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| McGuffin, Nicholas | Oregon | Coos | 2011 | 2019 | Manslaughter | Term of Years | 10 years | 8 | 18 | White | Male | 2019 | 01-20-2020 | |
| McKay, Cornell | Missouri | St. Louis City | 2013 | 2015 | Robbery | Term of Years | 12 years | 1 | 22 | Black | Male | 2015 | 05-11-2015 | |
| McKee, Larry | New York | Bronx | 1997 | 2018 | Murder | Term of Years | 24 to life | 21 | 25 | Black | Male | 2018 | 02-01-2018 | |
| McKenzie, John | New Jersey | Mercer | 1948 | 1951 | Murder | Death | 3 | 24 | Black | Male | 1951 | |||
| McLaughlin, Robert | New York | Kings | 1980 | 1986 | Murder | Term of Years | 15 to life | 6 | 18 | White | Male | 1986 | ||
| McLean, Melvin | New Jersey | Camden | 2007 | 2010 | Drug Possession or Sale | Unknown | 3 | 42 | Black | Male | 2010 | 08-29-2022 | ||
| McMullen, Edward | Ohio | Miami | 1956 | 1965 | Murder | Life | 10 | 28 | White | Male | 1965 | |||
| McNairy, Andre | Illinois | Cook | 2009 | 2017 | Drug Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 9 years | 6 | 44 | Black | Male | 2015 | 11-28-2018 | |
| McNenney, Edward | New York | New York | 2008 | 2011 | Fraud | Term of Years | 90 days | 0 | 40 | White | Male | 2008 | 06-25-2013 | |
| McPherson, Kenneth | Maryland | Baltimore City | 1995 | 2019 | Murder | Life | 24 | 20 | Black | Male | 2019 | 05-07-2019 | ||
| Meadows, Frank Jr. | Alabama | Jefferson | 1993 | 2022 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 20 years | 21 | 18 | Black | Male | 2015 | 01-06-2023 | |
| Mellen, Susan | California | Los Angeles | 1998 | 2014 | Murder | Life without parole | 16 | 42 | White | Female | 2014 | 10-10-2014 | ||
| Melock, Robert | Illinois | Lake | 1989 | 2024 | Murder | Death | 35 | 22 | White | Male | 2024 | 01-02-2025 | ||
| Mena, Enrique | California | Los Angeles | 1997 | 2000 | Weapon Possession or Sale | Term of Years | 3 years | 2 | 29 | Hispanic | Male | 2000 | 04-12-2021 | |
| Merrill, Thomas | California | Orange | 1991 | 1995 | Murder | Life | 4 | 24 | White | Male | 1995 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Merritt, George | New Jersey | Union | 1968 | 1980 | Murder | Life | 11 | 24 | Black | Male | 1980 | |||
| Mersereau, Adam | Wyoming | Converse | 2010 | 2012 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 18 to 24 years | 2 | 23 | White | Male | 2012 | 05-27-2017 | |
| Mervilus, Emmanuel | New Jersey | Union | 2008 | 2013 | Robbery | Term of Years | 11 years | 3 | 22 | Black | Male | 2011 | 05-03-2018 | |
| Metegrano, Pat | Illinois | Cook | 1942 | 1942 | Robbery | Term of Years | 1 to 5 years | 0 | 25 | White | Male | 1942 | ||
| Meyers, Terrence | Louisiana | Jefferson | 1993 | 2010 | Murder | Life without parole | 15 | 21 | Black | Male | 2008 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Michaels, Margaret Kelly | New Jersey | Essex | 1988 | 1994 | Child Sex Abuse | Term of Years | 47 years | 5 | 22 | White | Female | 1993 | 02-21-2012 | |
| Milke, Debra | Arizona | Maricopa | 1990 | 2015 | Murder | Death | 23 | 25 | White | Female | 2013 | 03-19-2015 | ||
| Milla, Marco | California | Los Angeles | 2002 | 2015 | Murder | Life without parole | 12 | 19 | Hispanic | Male | 2014 | 09-07-2016 | ||
| Miller, Anthony | New York | Monroe | 2014 | 2020 | Robbery | Term of Years | 10 years | 6 | 21 | Black | Male | 2020 | 12-15-2021 | |
| Miller, Benjamin | Connecticut | Fairfield | 1973 | 1989 | Murder | Term of Years | 25 years | 16 | 42 | White | Male | 1989 | 12-21-2012 | |
| Miller, Christopher | Ohio | Cuyahoga | 2002 | 2018 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 40 years | 16 | 24 | Black | Male | 2018 | 06-29-2018 | |
| Miller, Dion | New Jersey | Hudson | 2006 | 2023 | Murder | Term of Years | 30 years | 17 | 33 | Black | Male | 2023 | 08-14-2023 | |
| Miller, Jerry | Illinois | Cook | 1982 | 2007 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 45 years | 24 | 23 | Black | Male | 2006 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Miller, John | Texas | Rains | 1989 | 1994 | Murder | Life | 4 | 42 | White | Male | 1993 | 08-29-2011 | ||
| Miller, Lawrence J. Jr. | Connecticut | Fairfield | 1983 | 1997 | Assault | Term of Years | 32 years | 12 | 36 | White | Male | 1996 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Miller, Lloyd Eldon | Hancock | 1956 | 1971 | Murder | Death | 10 | 29 | White | Male | 1967 | ||||
| Miller, Neil | Massachusetts | Suffolk | 1990 | 2000 | Sexual Assault | Term of Years | 26 to 45 years | 9 | 22 | Black | Male | 2000 | 08-29-2011 | |
| Mills, Damian | North Carolina | Buncombe | 2001 | 2015 | Murder | Term of Years | 12 years | 9 | 20 | Black | Male | 2010 | 10-11-2015 |