one of the reasons we know toforest johnson s name and his story is that in a 2019 washington post column, they wrote an opinion essay titled an ilt lusion of justice maying out in extended detail that sent johnson to death row where he spent half of his life and there is a story about a wrongful conviction, it s about witnesses who were rewarded for lies and threatened for telling the truth, and it is about an overly aggressive law enforcement, and a supine judiciary and almost comically ineffective representation, and how all of these things put a man on death row who everyone agrees is innocent, even the man who prosecuted him doubts his guilt. it is a story of lives ruined along the way and about the murder of a much-liked deputy, that because of all of this, remains unsolved.