Edward Earl Johnson

But I, you know, I like to think I'm halfway competent at my job, but of the six people I've lost, one patently was innocent.

So that's an 18% error rate, and that was Edward Earl Johnson.

I don't know if you ever saw the documentary 14 Days in May by the BBC.

Oh, yes.

And in the crowd were other pickpockets picketing, picking their pockets, because the execution was a good distraction, and that meant they could get away with it.

You know, it's just all a bit crazy, isn't it?

I want to go back to Edward Earl Johnson in Mississippi, Clive.

You, I mean, it's extraordinary to think you have, you know, subsequently you got that piece of information, which could have gone a long way to proving his innocence.