A STORY OF TRAGEDY; GLENN FORD - WRONGFULLY CONVICTED MAN THAT WAS ON LOUISIANA'S DEATH ROW

Courtesy of the Shreveport Times

Courtesy of the Shreveport Times

For a man that has served nearly 30 years for a crime that he didn't commit, Glenn Ford sounds awfully at peace and shows no signs of anger that most would have.  He was wrongfully convicted, sent to Louisiana's death row for a murder in that happened in 1984 and was recently released from Angola.  His story of leaving prison, battling terminal cancer and the State of Louisiana who refuses to compensate him for his time incarcerated and meeting the prosecutor who placed him in prison is both inspiring and saddening.

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Posted on April 20, 2015 and filed under Louisiana.