re-prosecution of mr. willis based on the arson science as it exists today would be a waste of time. ernest willis did not do the crime. >> and soon, a judge agrees. judge brock jones signs willis' release order. he is the same judge who sentenced him to die 17 years earlier. a day later, willis walks off texas' death row for the first time in almost two decades, he is a free man. his wife verilyn whom he met while on death row, is waiting for him outside the prison walls. up until this moment, they've only seen each other through a glass barrier. >> i remember walking down the stairs and my wife was across the road talking to all the reporters and stuff, you know, they got word, too. as soon as she seen me come out that door, she starred running. >> in the four years they've