It is with profound sadness that we share that our client, Thomas Gilbert, passed away on August 30, 2026, while still incarcerated. Thomas spent more than half a century in prison for a crime IPF has long maintained he did not commit. He was just 20 years old when he was arrested in 1973 and was later sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. Three years after his conviction, Allen Hicks confessed to committing the crime with William Watson and exculpated Thomas. A subseq