Something to be thankful for.

An Illinois man who spent more than three decades behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit was finally exonerated this month just in time for Thanksgiving.

In March 1992, a 20-year-old Danny Davis was pressured into pleading guilty to the murder of Mildred Smith, who was found brutally stabbed to death in her apartment in Cairo, Illinois earlier that year, according to a news release from the Innocence Project .

Danny Davis, 53, was fully exonerated in November, more than 30 years after he was sentenced to life in prison. The Exonoration Project

Danny and his brother, then-17-year-old Isaac Davis, were both taken in for questioning “based on an unfounded tip,” according to the release.

From there, the brothers were subjected to “many hours of psycholo

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