Death Sentence!
Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman11 Maj 2023

Death Sentence!

In this episode of Bloody Angola, Woody Overton and Jim Chapman tell you some stories you will have to hear to believe regarding inmate of Louisiana State Penitentiary who were sentenced to DEATH ROW getting exonerated after DNA evidence or other substantiating evidence cleared them of their crime and saved them from getting the needle.#DeathSentence #DNA #InnocenceProject #BloodyAngola #PodcastFULL TRANSCRIPTJim: Hey, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of Bloody-
Woody: -Angola.
Jim: A podcast 142 years in the making.
Woody: The complete story of America's bloodiest prison.
Jim: And I'm Jim Chapman.
Woody: And I'm Woody Overton.
Jim: And we're going back to our roots, Woody Overton.
Woody: Right back inside the wire.
Jim: Back inside the wire. Just when you thought we got out. Just coming back here.
Woody: Yep. [crosstalk] They made me come back in.
Jim: That's right. Look, we talk a lot on this show about the advancement, especially DNA, something you've worked with in the past many times.
Woody: Yeah. This is a huge testament to DNA. When I started, it was really coming in its own. Now it's so much more advanced. I remember putting rushes on murder cases, and it taken six months to get the results back.
Jim: That's crazy. Even back, we talked about Sean Vincent Gillis, and that was really probably one of the first times they were ever able to really rush something to the point where it really helped because you had to get that serial killer off the street.
Woody: Derrick Todd Lee too. Still, even the rush back then took a long time. Not like it is now.
Jim: Right.
Woody: You know what? I'm totally for it. And let me do this real quick. I want to give a shout out to all our patrons. We love and appreciate each and every one of y'all. We love all you listeners, and bloody shooting to the top of the charts. It's because y'all are listening, liking and sharing. Please continue to do so. And we love y'all very much. Back to the DNA, it's just come leaps and bounds that continue to change every day. We always tell you Bloody Angola is going to be different, and this is different. You would think, oh, hard ass like me, lock everybody up, I don't believe in that. I believe if you're innocent you're innocent.
Jim: If you're guilty, lock them up.
Woody: If you're guilty, you- [crosstalk]
Jim: Don't wait [crosstalk]
Woody: [crosstalk] -you'll pay hella jail.
Jim: [laughs] Hella jail, that's right. We did want to preface this episode with some of these guys were exonerated from DNA. Some of them, it was other reasons. And we're going to get into that. The intriguing thing about today's episode is many of these guys that we're going to tell you about were actually serving in death row. They've been sentenced to death.
Woody: Today, we're going to be talking about people or convicts who were exonerated and released from Bloody Angola.
Jim: Yes. We want to kind of start this off. I'm just going to tell you about the Innocence Project. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck, y'all, familiar with him through OJ. It was basically formed to assist incarcerated individuals who could be proven innocent, primarily through DNA testing. Although sometimes they find so many holes in a case, they'll pick up a case where there's so many problems that they take that case on and look for exonerations in those cases. The average prison sentence before they'll take on a case is 14 years before their exoneration or release. And so, it's a process, even with those guys, but we're going to them to it.
Woody: They don't just take anybody, right?
Jim: Yeah.
Woody: One of the ones I can tell you about if-- ready to get started?
Jim: I'm ready.
Woody: Is John Thompson. John Thompson was from Orleans Parish. I'll just read you some of the facts of the case, some of the highlights, and what ultimately ended up happening. Shortly after midnight on December 6th, 1984, Raymond Liuzza was shot several times in the course of an armed robbery just around the corner from his New Orleans, Louisiana apartment. When the cops arrived, they found Liuzza laying on the ground, but he was still conscious. He told them he was robbed and shot by an African American male and then took him to hospital and he died. On December 8th, responded to tip, the police arrested two men in connection with the crime. John Thompson and Kevin Freeman. Photos of the two men were published in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and soon afterwards, police received a call from a family that had been carjacked several months earlier, claiming that Thompson looked like the person who had robbed them. Thompson was charged with the murder. Meanwhile, Freeman agreed to testify against Thompson in the murder trial, and in return, prosecutors charged him only with being an accessory to the murder. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. We're talking about Freeman, y'all.
The world-famous New Orleans district attorney, Harry Connick, Sr,, not Junior, that's his son, the singer and actor, decided to try Thompson for the carjacking case first, knowing that a conviction could be used against him in the murder trial. Based primarily on the eyewitness testimony of the three carjacking victims, all of whom were minors, Thompson was convicted on April 4, 1985, and sentenced to 49 years in prison. That is for the carjacking. Y'all, always told you that eyewitness testimony is the worst testimony there is, but doesn't mean it's not true.
At his murder trial, held shortly thereafter, the prosecution demonstrated that Thompson had at one time been in possession of both the murder weapon and a ring taken from Liuzza’s finger. Thompson decided not to testify in his own defense because if he did, his felony carjacking charge would have been admissible to the jury. As a result, he was unable to tell the jury that Freeman had sold him the murder weapon and the ring. Freeman, the main witness for the prosecution, claimed that he and Thompson had robbed Liuzza together and that Thompson had shot him. This testimony was contradicted by the statements of eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen only one man running from the scene of the crime. Richard Perkins, who had originally called in the tip implicating Thompson and Freeman, also testified for the prosecution, claiming that he had heard Thompson make incriminating remarks. Thompson was found guilty and sentenced to death on May 8th, 1985.
Fast forward a whole bunch of years, y'all, and events took a dramatic turn in April 1999, 30 days before scheduled execution, an investigator discovered that there was a blood stain from the robber on the clothing of one of the carjacking victims and that this evidence had never been disclosed to the defense. It's Brady, y'all. If they had it, they got to give it up. The prosecutor had ordered testing to determine the blood type of the stain, and in fact, they had rushed the test. But when the blood type was determined-- I guess this was before DNA. Blood type was determined and was different from Thompson's. They concealed it. Defense attorneys then obtained an affidavit Michael Rielhmann, a former district attorney, who said that five years earlier, in 1994, Gerry Deegan, one of Thompson's prosecutors, admitted on his deathbed that the blood evidence was intentionally suppressed and that he left a report about it on the desk of James Williams, the lead prosecutor. Williams denied ever seeing the report. Defense attorneys also learned that Perkins, the witness who testified that Thompson had admitted the murder, had received $15,000 from the Liuzza family as a reward. When this evidence was presented to the trial judge, he granted a stay of execution and dismissed Thompson’s carjacking conviction, but he denied Thompson’s motion for a new trial on the Liuzza murder. In 2001, however, he reduced Thompson’s death sentence to life in prison without parole.
Jim: Wow.
Woody: Pretty crazy, right?
Jim: Very crazy.
Woody: In July of 2002, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal overturned Thompson’s murder conviction and remanded the case for retrial, ruling that the false robbery conviction obtained by deliberate government misconduct had deprived Thompson of his constitutional right to testify on his own behalf at the murder trial. Y'all, I'm not against that. I mean, give him a new trial, if it was messed up. At the second trial, Thompson was able to explain that he purchased the murder weapon from Freeman, and the defense called several new witnesses who claimed to have seen only one man fleeing the scene of the murder. They said that the man did not look like Thompson, but did resemble Freeman who, in the meantime, had been killed in a shootout with a security guard. On May 8, 2003, a jury acquitted Thompson after deliberating for 35 minutes, and he was released from prison the same day. Y'all, 35 minutes is for conviction? That's outstanding. But for exoneration, I mean, that's unbelievable. It normally takes hours--[crosstalk]
Jim: They were pretty convinced.
Woody: Yeah, they want to make sure. In 2008, Thompson won a $14 million civil suit against the District Attorney’s Office. That judgment was reversed by the US Supreme Court in March 2011 on the grounds that the misconduct in the case was not the result of a deliberate policy or systematic indifference by the New Orleans DA's Office. He got $330,000 in state compensation. But you know what? That's a long time to be on death row, and you didn't do it.
Jim: He's a good example of someone that it wasn't necessarily DNA evidence that exonerated him, but it was the facts of the case.
Woody: I have heard this case before, and actually, I think it's pretty well documented-
Jim: Thank you.
Woody:

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Death Threat | Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast #8

Death Threat | Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast #8

Special Guest Kelly Jennings who spent time as a Classifications Office at Louisiana State penitentiary at Angola joins Woody and Jim for a second appearance and tells of a very serious Death Threat she received while working at the bloodiest prison in America.#DeathThreat #AngolaPrison #LouisianaStatePrision #Louisiana #BloodyAngola Episode 8 "Death Threat" is engineered and Produced by Jim Chapman and Envision Podcast Studios LLC Bloody Angola on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BloodyAngolaPodcastBloody Angola on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodyangola/ Bloody Angola on the web: https://www.bloodyangola.com Thank you to our sponsors! A-1 Mortgage Services: https://a1mortgageservices.com Cajun Navy ground Force: https://www.gocajunnavy.org Stirgus Credit Repair: https://stirguscreditrepair.com/ Performance Tire and Automotive: https://www.performancetireandautomotive.com Southern Rhythm Venue and Entertainment: https://southernrhythm.com Hustle Makes it Happen the Podcast: https://www.hustlemakesithappen.com The Brock Law Firm: https://www.lawyerlivingstonla.com Flourish Hormone Replacement and Wellness Centers: https://www.flourishhormonereplacement.com #AngolaPrison #PrisonPodcast #BloodyAngola #PodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

8 Sep 202256min

Inside The Wire | Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast #7

Inside The Wire | Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast #7

Special Guest Kelly Jennings who spent time as a Classifications Office at Louisiana State penitentiary at Angola gives us (and you) a view of the layout of the notorious maximum Security Prison located in Louisiana from a whole different perspective.#Insidethewire #AngolaPrison #LouisianaStatePrision #Louisiana #BloodyAngola Episode 7 "Inside the Wire" is engineered and Produced by Jim Chapman and Envision Podcast Studios LLC Bloody Angola on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BloodyAngolaPodcastBloody Angola on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodyangola/ Bloody Angola on the web: https://www.bloodyangola.com Thank you to our sponsors! A-1 Mortgage Services: https://a1mortgageservices.com Cajun Navy ground Force: https://www.gocajunnavy.org Stirgus Credit Repair: https://stirguscreditrepair.com/ Performance Tire and Automotive: https://www.performancetireandautomotive.com Southern Rhythm Venue and Entertainment: https://southernrhythm.com Hustle Makes it Happen the Podcast: https://www.hustlemakesithappen.com The Brock Law Firm: https://www.lawyerlivingstonla.com Flourish Hormone Replacement and Wellness Centers: https://www.flourishhormonereplacement.com #AngolaPrison #PrisonPodcast #BloodyAngola #PodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

1 Sep 20221h 3min

Bloody Angola:A Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman WARNING ONLY

Bloody Angola:A Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman WARNING ONLY

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31 Aug 202248s

Rule Book | Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast #6 Woody Overton and Jim Chapman

Rule Book | Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast #6 Woody Overton and Jim Chapman

So what are the rules of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola?  Woody Overton and Jim Chapman have the Louisiana Department of Corrections "Rule Book" that is issued to both Inmates and Staff of Angola state prison.  In this episode we cover the rules of the prison in detail, some may shock you!  Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman tells the history and stories of the bloodiest prison in American history, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.  From the creative minds of award winning podcasters Woody Overton of Real life Real Crime and Jim Chapman of  Local Leaders:The Podcast Bloody Angola is a no holds barred podcast based on stories and interviews of the bloodiest prison in America, told like you have never heard it!    Episode 6 "Rule Book" is engineered and Produced by Jim Chapman and Envision Podcast Studios LLC    Bloody Angola on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/BloodyAngolaPodcast Bloody Angola on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bloodyangola/   Bloody Angola on the web:  https://www.bloodyangola.com   Thank you to our sponsors!   A-1 Mortgage Services:  https://a1mortgageservices.com   Cajun Navy ground Force:  https://www.gocajunnavy.org  Stirgus Credit Repair:  https://stirguscreditrepair.com/  Performance Tire and Automotive:  https://www.performancetireandautomotive.com  Southern Rhythm Venue and Entertainment:  https://southernrhythm.com  Hustle Makes it Happen the Podcast:  https://www.hustlemakesithappen.com  The Brock Law Firm:  https://www.lawyerlivingstonla.com  Flourish Hormone Replacement and Wellness Centers:  https://www.flourishhormonereplacement.com #AngolaPrison #PrisonPodcast #BloodyAngola #PodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

25 Aug 202252min

|Brent Miller and the Angola 3 Part 3| Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast

|Brent Miller and the Angola 3 Part 3| Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast

Woody Overton and Jim Chapman conclude this 3 part series covering the brutal murder of Angola Prison Guard Brent Miller with inside information and details you may have never heard. This episode covers the convictions of Alford Woodbox and Herman Wallace of the Angola 3. Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman tells the history and stories of the bloodiest prison in American history, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. From the creative minds of award winning podcasters Woody Overton of Real Life Real Crime @Real Life Real Crime Podcast  and Jim Chapman of @Local Leaders:The Podcast Bloody Angola is a no holds barred podcast based on stories and interviews of the bloodiest prison in America, told like you have never heard it!    Episode 4 "Brent Miller and the Angola 3 Part Two" is engineered and Produced by  Jim Chapman and Envision Podcast Studios LLC    #AngolaPrison #PrisonPodcast #BloodyAngola #PodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

18 Aug 202257min

|Brent Miller and the Angola 3 Part Two| Bloody Angola A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman

|Brent Miller and the Angola 3 Part Two| Bloody Angola A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman

Woody Overton and Jim Chapman continue the discussion into the brutal murder of Angola Prison Guard Brent Miller with inside information and details you may have never heard. #AlbertWoodfox #BloodyAngola #PrisonPodcast #PodcastBloody Angola: A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman tells the history and stories of the bloodiest prison in American history, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. From the creative minds of award winning podcasters Woody Overton of Real Life Real Crime  @Real Life Real Crime Podcast    Jim Chapman of     @Local Leaders:The Podcast     Bloody Angola is a no holds barred podcast based on stories and interviews of the bloodiest prison in America, told like you have never heard it!    Episode 4 "Brent Miller and the Angola 3 Part Two" is engineered and Produced by Jim Chapman and Envision Podcast Studios LLC   Bloody Angola on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/BloodyAngolaPodcast  Bloody Angola on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bloodyangola/  Bloody Angola on the web:  https://www.bloodyangola.com  Thank you to our sponsors!   A-1 Mortgage Services:  https://a1mortgageservices.com   Cajun Navy ground Force:  https://www.gocajunnavy.org  Stirgus Credit Repair:  https://stirguscreditrepair.com/  Performance Tire and Automotive:  https://www.performancetireandautomotive.com  Southern Rhythm Venue and Entertainment:  https://southernrhythm.com  Hustle Makes it Happen the Podcast:  https://www.hustlemakesithappen.com  The Brock Law Firm:  https://www.lawyerlivingstonla.com  Flourish Hormone Replacement and Wellness Centers:  https://www.flourishhormonereplacement.com #AngolaPrison #PrisonPodcast #BloodyAngola #PodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

11 Aug 202255min

Bloody Angola: Brent Miller and the Angola 3 Part 1

Bloody Angola: Brent Miller and the Angola 3 Part 1

Woody Overton and Jim Chapman discuss the brutal murder of Angola Prison Guard Brent Miller with inside information and details you may have never heard.Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman tells the history and stories of the bloodiest prison in American history, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.From the creative minds of award winning podcasters Woody Overton of Real Life Real Crime   @Real Life Real Crime Podcast     and Jim Chapman of   @Local Leaders:The Podcast    Bloody Angola is a no holds barred podcast based on stories and interviews of the bloodiest prison in America, told like you have never heard it!   Episode 3 "Brent Miller and the Angola 3" is engineered and Produced by Jim Chapman and Envision Podcast Studios LLC  Bloody Angola on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BloodyAngolaPodcast Bloody Angola on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodyangola/ Bloody Angola on the web: https://www.bloodyangola.com Thank you to our sponsors!  A-1 Mortgage Services: https://a1mortgageservices.com  Cajun Navy ground Force: https://www.gocajunnavy.org Stirgus Credit Repair: https://stirguscreditrepair.com/ Performance Tire and Automotive: https://www.performancetireandautomotive.com Southern Rhythm Venue and Entertainment: https://southernrhythm.com Hustle Makes it Happen the Podcast: https://www.hustlemakesithappen.com The Brock Law Firm: https://www.lawyerlivingstonla.com Flourish Hormone Replacement and Wellness Centers: https://www.flourishhormonereplacement.com #AngolaPrison #PrisonPodcast #BloodyAngola #PodcastAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

4 Aug 202253min

THE HEEL STRING GANG Bloody Angola Episode 2 - A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman

THE HEEL STRING GANG Bloody Angola Episode 2 - A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman

From the creative minds of award winning podcasters Woody Overton of Real Life Real Crime   @Real Life Real Crime Podcast     and Jim Chapman of   @Local Leaders:The Podcast    Bloody Angola is a no holds barred podcast based on stories and interviews of the bloodiest prison in America, told like you have never heard it!  Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola has a notorious history and the best in podcast storytelling and the best in interview style podcasting have joined forces to show bring a podcast experience like you have never seen!  Episode 2 "The Heel String Gang" is engineered and Produced by Jim Chapman and Envision Podcast Studios LLC  Bloody Angola on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BloodyAngolaPodcast Bloody Angola on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodyangola/ Bloody Angola on the web: https://www.bloodyangola.com Thank you to our sponsors!  A-1 Mortgage Services: https://a1mortgageservices.com  Cajun Navy ground Force: https://www.gocajunnavy.org Stirgus Credit Repair: https://stirguscreditrepair.com/ Performance Tire and Automotive: https://www.performancetireandautomotive.com Southern Rhythm Venue and Entertainment: https://southernrhythm.com Hustle Makes it Happen the Podcast: https://www.hustlemakesithappen.com The Brock Law Firm: https://www.lawyerlivingstonla.com Flourish Hormone Replacement and Wellness Centers: https://www.flourishhormonereplacement.com #AngolaPrison #PrisonPodcast #BloodyAngolaAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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