i didn t do nothing. hearing the judge say guilty. two brothers convicted of murder fight back against the justice system. a pattern. how to gain a conviction. i knew they were innocent and the question is do we have enough? there are several witnesses saying the testimony is coerced. can they all be lying? if i have to die in this situation trying to prove i m an innocent man. never gave up. never. hello, and welcome to dateline. imagine spending nearly your entire adult life behind bars for a crime you did not commit. the man you are about to meet say that nightmare felt too real threat decades long journey to prove their innocence, they faced countless giving up is not an option, but, with their fight lead to freedom? here is the long road to freedom. tulsa, oklahoma. look at a list of top places to live and you will often find it. a city of promise of a new kind of energy, as its motto says. look a bit closer. just over the railroad tracks the separate t
the jury did not believe him and found corey guilty. on june 25tth, 1991, he was sentenced to life and shipped off to a maximum security prison. just like that, he was out of malcolm s life. corey left when i was no more than 13, and that was hard. to fill the void, malcolm started to hang out more with de marchoe carpenter, a lanky basketball player and neighborhood jokester. i was going to be a comedian. you know, i used to think i was so funny. i always tell jokes, and get the girls, and make em laugh. but in north tulsa fun could easily turn tragic in a split second. malcolm and de marchoe were at a party spot late one night in december 1993 when a drive-by shooter hit the place. malcolm was grazed, but de marchoe was badly injured. he was rushed to the hospital, malcolm by his side.
risk. while malcolm and de marchoe waited, wilson lost his final appeal on january 2nd, 2014. he was set to die by lethal injection a week later. and then the phone rang. it was wilson s lawyer. and she said to us, if you want to talk to him, this is the window you ve got. and it was, literally, i think 48 hours before his execution. my name is michael wilson. when murphy met with wilson in a death row visiting room, a video camera was rolling. i was incredibly nervous, because i knew what was on the line for malcolm and de marchoe. now, what might be their last chance at freedom came down to whether a condemned man would decide to come clean. within minutes he did. i wasn t trying to shoot karen summers, i was just she was one of those type of things you know, and she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.