Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Exonerated Angola prisoner dies after nearly 30 years in solitary confinement



Glenn Ford died Monday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 65.
Ford was convicted of first-degree murder in 1984 but was exonerated in March 2014.
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Ford would have still been on death row if not for a confidential informant who told police in 2013 that someone else confessed to him about the murder that Ford was accused of committing. Lawyer and friend William Most told ABC News Ford was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer several months after being released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Most said that it quickly progressed to stage 4 and spread to his bones.
"He was a really inspirational person and ... I'd even heard that he inspired people that had no connection to him," Most told ABC News.


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