Justice 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.

Alice Roque worked at Octapharma Plasma for 19 years. At 74, they moved her to a standing role. Her back hurt, so she asked for a chair - twice. Her supervisor suggested she resign instead. Then they fired her. A San Diego jury awarded her $11.2 million. She hadn't asked for a single dollar in lost wages.

A mother of three walked out of an Alabama Walmart with Cap'n Crunch, bread, and Christmas lights. The scanner froze. **Walmart had her arrested.** When the charge was dropped, they sent collection letters anyway - demanding $200 from a woman who owed them nothing. She sued. A unanimous jury handed her $2.1 million. The scanner was $48.

A school groundskeeper spent years mixing and spraying Roundup and was twice soaked to the skin when the equipment failed. When he was diagnosed with terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he sued Monsanto. A San Francisco jury awarded him $289 million in the first-ever Roundup trial - $250 million of it punitive. The day the verdict landed, Bayer lost $14 billion in stock value.

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.