“Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me.”
Williams was convicted in 1983 for the rape and stabbing of a woman at her home in the Hundred Oaks area of Baton Rouge after the victim identified him in a photographic lineup presented by investigators.
Even though none of the fingerprints matched Archie during his trial and three different people testified that he was at home at the time, he was still sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or probation.“I knew I was innocent, I didn’t commit a crime but being a poor black kid, I didn’t have the ability to fight the state of Louisiana.”
Archie Williams was exonerated in March 2019, thanks to the help of the Innocence Project New Orleans, when improvements in evidence technology proved fingerprints taken at the scene of the crime belonged to another man — a serial rapist who went free while Williams was serving his sentence.Watch Williams’ full audition below:
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