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NEW ORLEANS – A 38-year-old man wrongly convicted of raping and killing his 14-year-old step-cousin in 1997 was released Friday from Louisiana's death row after his confession was determined to be false and DNA tests found him to be innocent.
Damon A. Thibodeaux was released at about 12:30 p.m. after spending 15 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, said Pam Laborde, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Corrections.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/2...e-as-free-man-after-dna-proves/#ixzz27tMQAOnu
not only do we have a confession here, but he lost on appeal all the way to the US supreme court. he argued his confession was forced and that the evidence was lacking...he lost. amazingly, after all that, it is finally proven he is in fact innocent, despite the fact he pled guilty.
with this dangerously inept system, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the death penalty should not exist in america.
Damon A. Thibodeaux was released at about 12:30 p.m. after spending 15 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, said Pam Laborde, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Corrections.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/2...e-as-free-man-after-dna-proves/#ixzz27tMQAOnu
not only do we have a confession here, but he lost on appeal all the way to the US supreme court. he argued his confession was forced and that the evidence was lacking...he lost. amazingly, after all that, it is finally proven he is in fact innocent, despite the fact he pled guilty.
with this dangerously inept system, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the death penalty should not exist in america.