US man walks free after 25 years on death row after murder conviction quashed
Glenn Ford, 64, leaves Angola prison in Louisiana after judge quashes his conviction for murder of jeweller and says: 'It feels good'
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.
“I can’t go back and do anything I should have been doing when I was 35, 38, 40, stuff like that.”
Ford was convicted in 1984 of the first-degree murder of 56-year-old Isadore Rozeman, a Shreveport jeweller and watchmaker for whom he had done occasional yard work.