March 31, 2010
John Thompson spent 18
years in a Louisiana prison, 14 of them in solitary confinement on
death row. He was a few weeks away from death by lethal injection
when his life was saved by a bloody scrap of cloth that prosecutors
had concealed since his trial. Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues
that the Supreme Court should uphold the $14 million award Thompson
won from a federal jury that concluded Orleans Parish District
Attorney Harry Connick had acted with "deliberate indifference" by
failing to train his underlings in their constitutional
obligations.
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