After 15 years on death row, freedom

[Crabtownboy]

Confession does not always mean guilty. This fellow was lucky. Others have not been lucky.

Thibodeaux, who was convicted after falsely confessing to having raped and murdered his 14-year-old step-cousin, said he hopes law enforcement will learn from his case.
"Make sure you have the right person before you start a process of executing someone," he said. "Because it costs a lot of money to go back and look at all of these cases again. If it's done right the first time, you shouldn't have to do that."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/justice/louisiana-inmate-exonerated/

 

[Deacon]

After 15 years the main lesson he should have learned was that confessing to a crime has consequences too.

Rob

 

[Sapper Woody]

I learned from this that there can be people free in society who need to be on death row because some idiot covered for them by confessing to a crime someone else committed. You can't blame the system for this one, or use it as an anti death penalty argument.

 

[carpro]

He isn't just "lucky".

He is also stupid.

If he had been executed, he would have gotten exactly what he asked for.

Suicide by state.