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A Louisiana man who was freed from prison last year after spending almost three decades wrongfully incarcerated on death row has died.
Glenn Ford, 65, succumbed to lung cancer Monday morning. In a release, Ford’s supporters wrote:
At 2:11 this morning, Monday June 29th 2015, Glenn slipped away very quietly and peacefully. He was held and surrounded by people who cared about him, and was listening to a song he loved. Thank you for your generous outpouring of support.
Freedom for Ford was short-lived, and complete justice was arguably never served.
In 1984, Ford was convicted by an all-white jury of murdering Isadore Rozeman, a 56-year-old Shreveport jeweler and watchmaker. At age 33, Ford was sentenced to death and would go on to spend almost half of his life in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. When he was released, Ford was the longest-serving death row inmate in America.
Ford maintained his innocence throughout his incarceration. After “credible evidence” surfaced corroborating Ford’s story that he was not part of Rozeman’s murder, Caddo County prosecutors asked that Ford’s conviction be vacated. He walked free in March 2014.
Though Ford had finally won his freedom, he emerged from prison sick, penniless andbattling Stage IV lung cancer. About a year after his release, a Caddo Parish District judge denied Ford restitution for his years of wrongful imprisonment, saying he was “proven to be guilty of lesser crimes and was not an innocent man.”
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