‘Anyone who says we live comfortably on death row has obviously never been there’

Headline Title:  ‘Anyone who says we live comfortably on death row has never been there’ 19 April 2013 Damon Thibodeaux lived under the threat of execution for more than a decade.This US national, now 38, was convicted of the murder of 14-year-old Chrystal Champagne, his step-cousin, and sentenced to death in 1997. But he always insisted on his innocence and after spending 15 years in prison he finally walked out of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola – one of the harshest prisons in the country – a free man. This is his story.‘Confession’Thibodeaux’s case is far from unusual. Error…

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