Exoneration Facts

Ricky Jackson is 18, headed to death row for a crime he did not commit. The only witness is a 12-year-old boy whose story was fed to him by police. He walks out 39 years, 3 months, and 9 days later - the longest wrongful sentence in US history. Cleveland pays him $7.2 million. He forgives the kid.

Ryan Ferguson spent nearly 10 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit - convicted after a witness claimed he 'remembered' the night through dream-like flashbacks. Both witnesses later admitted they lied. An appeals court freed him, then a jury handed him $37.9 million.