- Glenn Ford, 64, spent 26 years awaiting execution for 1983 shooting death of jewelers and clockmaker Isadore Rozeman
- Ford, an African-American, was tried and convicted of first-degree murder by all-white jury
- Death sentence was voided after prosecutors uncovered new information proving that Ford was not the shooter
- Police informant Jake Robinson, one of four men originally arrsted in the murder, had allegedly confessed to killing Rozeman
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| Lost years: Upon leaving death row, Ford told reporters that he does harbor some resentment at being wrongly jailed and denied the chance to help raise his sons, who are now grown men |
A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison Tuesday, hours after a judge approved the state's motion to vacate the inmate's murder conviction in the 1983 killing of a jeweler.
Glenn Ford, 64, had been on death row since August 1988 in connection with the death of 56-year-old Isadore Rozeman, a Shreveport jeweler and watchmaker for whom Ford had done occasional yard work. Ford had always denied killing Rozeman.
Ford walked out the maximum security prison at Angola this afternoon, said Pam Laborde, a spokeswoman for Louisiana's Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
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