Imagine that scene in the movies: You have had your last meal; you are walking down that long corridor with a holy man intoning prayers. They place you in the chair, wet the cloth, lay it upon your head, attach the wires and the warden says the last words you will ever hear. Electricity surges through you until you are dead. Now imagine you are completely innocent.

From such a bleak start, it may be hard to believe, but this is a story of hope, redemption, and healing for both a family and a nation.

Tom Joyner sat down with Professor Louis Gates as a participant in the PBS documentary African American Lives 2 last year. Mr. Joyner, a radio talk show host knew little about his family. He was about to find out why his mother moved away from their home in South Carolina and never spoke of her brothers.  They had been wrongly convicted of a murder~ astonishingly for the time 150 white residents had asked the Governor for a commuted sentence, but it was denied. Last Wednesday, October 14, 2009 they received a full pardon. Justice was finally served after 100 years.

Read all the details of this touching story here.