Two innocent men, sentenced to die for a murder they did not commit, are now free http://t.co/w84tSEtSB6 pic.twitter.com/5MucHIeM12

— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) November 29, 2014

The boy [eyewitness], now a grown man, later filed an affidavit admitting that he never saw the murder. He also claims that he was threatened by police into identifying Jackson as one of the murderers.