CNN Anderson Cooper 360 December 7, 2013 01:40:00
Did you think you would die on death row? >> i knew i was going to die. i didn't have anything else to say. even executed, i didn't see no one leaving off death row for sure. >> reporter: how john thompson survived is complicated to see the least. it would be more than a decade before he learned the district attorney's office in new orleans with held evidence from his defense team that would have kept him from going to prison all together. his story begins in january 1985 when thompson was charged with the murder of a white hotel executive. back then, thompson was just 22 with two children. af...
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