Chris Duncan Has Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.

Between 1976 and 2015, an astonishing 80 percent of the state’s capital sentences were later reversed—nine people have been exonerated off death row in the time that Duncan has been there. 

The state pushes the death penalty willy nilly, and 80 percent of them get overturned. Discredited pseudoscientists make up a story to ruin this guys life. A democrat governor signed a law to allow prisoners more ability to present evidence and overturn convictions. Lets see what the republicans have to say:

Landry, the Republican governor who has pushed hard to make state laws more punitive since he took office in early 2024, has derided the 2021 law that created the factual innocence statute as a “woke, hug-a-thug policy,” arguing that it gave too much discretion to DAs to let prisoners go free. In a blog post about the law written while he was running for governor in 2023, he opined: “once a verdict has been finalized, there are no more ‘get out of jail free’ cards.”