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Conviction. I knew they were innocent. And the question was do we have enough . Reporter youve got several witnesses saying their testimony was coerced. Can they all be lying . If i have to die in this situation, let it be said that i would die trying to prove it that i was an innocent man. Never that i gave up. Never. Heres craig melvin with the long road to freedom. Reporter tulsa, oklahoma. Look at a list of top places to live and youll often find it. A city of promise, of a new kind of energy as its motto says. But look a bit closer. Just over the Railroad Tracks that separate the north fr...

I knew they were innocent. And the question was do we have enough . Reporter youve got several witnesses saying their testimony was coerced. Can they all be lying . If i have to die in this situation, let it be said that i would die trying to prove it that i was an innocent man. Never that i gave up. Never. Heres craig melvin with the long road to Freedom Reporter tulsa oklahoma. Look at a list of top places to live and youll often find it. A city of promise, of a new kind of energy as its motto says. But look a bit closer. Just over the Railroad Tracks that separate the north from the south s...

>> when you heard the judge say, "corey atchison, you're a free man." what'd you think? >> it's no words to explain, like i'm just so happy. i'm just ready for him to come home and be there for me and my baby. >> "dateline" repeatedly asked the tulsa police department to respond to the allegations it threatened teenage witnesses in both malcolm's and corey's cases. we also asked the da's and the mayor's office for interviews. they all declined. but we did speak to tim harris, tulsa's former district attorney, who prosecuted corey and who doane thomas said coerced him into lying that corey was ...

Testimony he goes, you know what, i can't do this. what i just testified to isn't the truth. i was told to say it by these detectives. i didn't see corey do anything. >> next, norwood tracked down the prosecution's star witness, doane thomas. and he told him he had lied, too, when he identified corey as the killer. >> doane thomas' claim is that the police pressured him to say it, and then the prosecutor tim harris got him through the trial getting him to say it. >> then there was corey's friend who'd been with him the night of the shooting, ben king, the one who said on that interrogation vid...

But six months after lane's death, a 16-year-old named doane thomas told police he saw the shooter. it was corey. police arrested corey and charged him with first-degree murder. >> i was taken to the homicide division. and the detective was, like, you're going to tell us you did this. and i'm like, man, i ain't did nothing. >> at trial, doane thomas became the prosecution's star witness. prosecution's star witness. and prosecutors had more evidence -- they played an interrogation video of corey's friend, ben king, who was with him that night, in which he, too, told detectives that corey was th...