Black man

There are innocent men and women on death row. But because of a lie detector test and determined prosecutors, there's one less innocent man, a black man, on death row. The man escaped the sentence Emmett is now facing when prosecutors refused to believe Christopher Scott Emmett's accusations that a co-worker, not Emmett, had killed Langley.

Emmett, said Danville prosecutor William Fuller, killed John Fenton Langley then...

"He tried to pin the murder on a co-worker, a black co-worker," Fuller said. Emmett, who is white, will be the first person since Virginia re-instated the death penalty to be put to death," Fuller said.