Captive
Gary James was arrested in December, 1976 for a Columbus, Ohio bank robbery in which one of the bank guards was murdered. He maintained his innocence throughout the trial. In 1978, Ohio’s death penalty was held to be unconstitutional and all death row inmates were re-sentenced. James was given a life sentence. With funding from Centurion Ministries of New Jersey, James was subsequently able to uncover new evidence not made available to their defense attorneys at the time of their trial, including conflicting witness statements and fingerprints. James agreed to and passed a state-administered polygraph test, prompting Franklin County prosecutor Ron O’Brien to dismiss all charges “in the interest of justice.” The state dropped its appeal of the judge’s ruling, thereby clearing him of the same charges. While O’Brien said that releasing the two men was an admission of a 26-year-old unsolved murder and robbery, “[w]e don’t want anybody in prison serving time for something they didn’t do.”
9,484 Days
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/description-of-innocence-cases