Even now, Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the 27 years he spent on death row as a wrongfully convicted man.

He remembers 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat in the summer, conditions that were so brutal “there were a few times when I got up, I didn’t even know my name.”

The worst of it all was thinking his loved ones could believe he had committed an unspeakable crime. From inside Louisiana’s Angola prison, Duncan said he was helpless as his family fell to pieces: “My brother ended up going from being the region’s No. 1 car salesman to … dying of overdose. He just couldn’t take it. He couldn’t escape being my brother.”

But even now, after his conviction was overturned, Louisiana could force Duncan to go back to prison. The district attorney, who did not respond to our requests for comment, has said in court that he still believes Duncan is guilty and deserves to be executed. He has until June to decide on a retrial, though his term ends in January and he is not running for reelection.

Until then, Duncan’s life remains in limbo, both mentally and financially.

Read our full investigation with propublica, taken from more than 6 hours of interviews with Duncan: https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-angola-death-row-wrongful-conviction-jimmie-duncan