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How A Man’s False Confession Nearly Killed Him

There are other people in America like Damon Thibodeaux who were sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit — but few got the lucky escape he did when evidence came together proving he was not the perpetrator. I hope the least that his story does is help everyone think more deeply about…

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