AUSTIN, Texas -- Experts say Texas is seeing a decrease in the number of wrongfully convicted people receiving compensation.

Mike Ware is executive director of the Innocence Project of Texas. He said that it's becoming more difficult and time-consuming to identify, investigate and successfully litigate cases involving a wrongful conviction.

Only one person was added to the compensation list in 2016, down from 15 in 2009. Texas adopted a payment plan for the wrongfully convicted in 2009. It awards them up to $80,000 per year of incarceration in a lump payment when they're released and continues to pay them the same amount in annuity for the rest of their lives.

Texas has given more than $100 million to more than 100 people who were wrongly convicted of a crime.

Information from: The Dallas Morning News