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US man walks free after 25 years on death row
By scmp.com
Published: 03/12/2014

A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row after being convicted of the murder of a jeweller has walked free.

Glenn Ford, 64, who had always maintained his innocence, left the maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana, on Tuesday.

He said outside the gates: “It feels good. My mind is going in all kind of directions. It feels good.”

Asked he felt resentment at being wrongly imprisoned, he said: “Yeah, because I’ve been locked up almost 30 years for something I didn’t do.

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