US EditionLouisiana death row inmate released on bail after decades behind bars
Jimmie Duncan posted $150,000 bail after nearly 30 years on death row as forensic bite-mark evidence was deemed unreliable by experts, prompting case review.
- Jimmie Duncan, a Louisiana death row inmate, won release on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year by posting a $150,000 bond.
- Prosecutors' case relied on bite-mark analysis and an autopsy by two experts later linked to at least 10 wrongful convictions, according to Duncan's legal team.
- Duncan's attorneys described Jimmie Duncan as a model prisoner who helped others earn GEDs and noted he plans to live with a relative in central Louisiana after release.
- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill argued against bail while the Louisiana Supreme Court reviews the case, and Prosecutors are seeking to reinstate Duncan's conviction.
- Since 1973, more than 200 people on death row have been exonerated, including 12 in Louisiana, and Duncan was one of 55 people on death row held at Angola state prison.
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Louisiana still wants to execute a death row inmate after his conviction was overturned
Jimmie Duncan hugs his parents, Sharon and Bennie, upon his release from prison Nov. 26, 2025. (Photo by Jamal Barnes for the Innocence Project) This report was originally published by ProPublica. Jimmie “Chris” Duncan walked out of the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center and into the arms of his parents last week after spending the past 27 years on death row. Seven months ago, a Louisiana district court judge vacated his murder conviction for k…
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Davis VanguardA Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the victim’s mother has come to support his release.
Louisiana Death Row Prisoner Jimmie Duncan Released on Bail After Evidence Shows He is “Factually Innocent”
On November 26, 2025, Jimmie Duncan was released on bail from Louisiana’s Angola prison after spending 27 years on death row for a crime that a court now says never occurred. Ouachita Parish District Attorney Robert Tew opposed Mr. Duncan’s release on bail and maintains that he is guilty of rape and murder. Mr. Duncan’s attorneys dispute this and say Judge Alvin Sharp’s bail ruling “acknowledged the clear and convincing evidence show…
Death row inmate released on bail after 27 years with conviction overturned
A man who has spent 27 years on death row has been released on bail after his murder conviction was overturned. Jimmie Duncan, 57, from Louisiana, USA, endured almost three decades on death row for the ‘murder’ of his then girlfriend’s toddler, twenty-three-month-old Haley Oliveaux, who died in December 1993. (Picture: AP) Duncan’s attorney, Chris Fabricant, said in a statement that his client’s release marked a ‘significant step forward i…
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