[QUOTE]A man who has been on death row for a quarter of a century has walked free after his murder conviction was overturned.
Glenn Ford, who was found guilty over the 1983 killing of jeweller Isadore Rozeman, was exonerated after new evidence came to light.
As he walked out of a maximum security prison in Angola, Louisiana, the 64-year-old said: "My mind is going in all kinds of directions but it feels good."
However, he also said he harboured some resentment for being wrongly imprisoned.
"I've been locked up almost 30 years for something I didn't do," he said.
"I can't go back and do anything I should have been doing when I was 35, 38, 40, stuff like that."
The overturning of his conviction and sentence by a judge was based on new information that corroborated his claim that he was not present or involved in Mr Rozeman's death, Mr Ford's lawyers said.
Mr Ford, who worked part-time for Mr Rozeman, was found guilty in 1984 and was sentenced to die by electrocution.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://news.sky.com/story/1224550/man-on-death-row-for-25-years-walks-free[/url]
Awesome that he went free after they found out he didn't do it, but damn, 25 years being imprisoned for nothing. A third of your life, gone. I'd be more than pissed at the legal system if I were him.
"sorry for taking away almost a third of your life have fun in the real world"
25 years of his life he is never getting back. That's awful.
He has a lot of video games to make up.
The world changed so much in those 25 years.. goddamn
[QUOTE=proch;44213081]He has a lot of video games to make up.[/QUOTE]
literally all of them :v:
i'd demand compensation if I were him, 25 years of your life literally robbed from you it'd be insane if he got nothing for it.
So did he get payed for it?
imagine being in prison for 25 years knowing you didnt do it
[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;44213139]i'd demand compensation if I were him, 25 years of your life literally robbed from you it'd be insane if he got nothing for it.[/QUOTE]
"The state allows for an award of $25,000 (£15,000) for every year a wrongly convicted person spends in prison - up to a limit of $250,000 (£150,000), and $80,000 (£48,000) for 'lost life opportunities'.
In Mr Ford's case this means he will receive around £7,600 for every year he spent in prison." [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/my-sons-when-i-left-was-babies-now-they-grown-men-with-babies-us-man-glenn-ford-released-after-spending-nearly-30-years-on-death-row-for-a-crime-he-didnt-commit-9186340.html"]Source[/URL]
[QUOTE=Kenneth;44213222]<div></div><div>•</div><br>"The state allows for an award of $25,000 (£15,000) for every year a wrongly convicted person spends in prison - up to a limit of $250,000 (£150,000), and $80,000 (£48,000) for 'lost life opportunities'.<br>
<br>
In Mr Ford's case this means he will receive around £7,600 for every year he spent in prison." <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/my-sons-when-i-left-was-babies-now-they-grown-men-with-babies-us-man-glenn-ford-released-after-spending-nearly-30-years-on-death-row-for-a-crime-he-didnt-commit-9186340.html" target="_blank">Source</a>[/QUOTE]
The cap seems kinda stupid...
They should get at least what someone working a minimum wage job would earn each year with no cap, idk about in the US but in the UK £200,000 is only enough to buy a decent house.
If I were him (Assuming he's in alright health/shape) I'd fill up some ISAs and then go travelling the world or something, at 64 he doesnt exactly have a great deal to look forward to so he should use the money to at least make something out of what he has left.
A black man in Louisiana.
Was there even a trial?
I'd love to read about his experiences with modern technology and society. It's not like he was frozen in ice, but he must have something to say after being pretty much disconnected from the rest of the world for 25 years.
Just imagine if the evidence had come out [I]after[/I] he'd reached the end of death row.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;44213691]Just imagine if the evidence had come out [I]after[/I] he'd reached the end of death row.[/QUOTE]
The worst part to this sort of stuff is I believe that's actually happened before.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;44213691]Just imagine if the evidence had come out [I]after[/I] he'd reached the end of death row.[/QUOTE]
It wouldn't have come out, it would have just been buried in the archives of our corrupt and barbaric justice system.
[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;44213727]The worst part to this sort of stuff is I believe that's actually happened before.[/QUOTE]
It has actually, and I think there is even a list of people who were found not guilty after they were executed.
I hope he somehow gets SOMETHING for compensation. A pension check, at least?
Its amazing to think though what kind of perspective you have on the world after all that time, and knowing you only have about 10-20 years left to spend it before you bite the dust
Shame the reward amount for all those years is so paltry though. I'd suggest he spend the rest of his days traveling and living the life he never could but with only $7k a year thats pretty much not possible. Well.. maybe. Considering he doesn't have to work for that 7K he could probably spend all his time travelling every year. But reguardless, he spends 25 years in prison wrongfully - a prision system that is practically a "too big to fail" industry - and yet gets less money out of it per year than what a kid who loses an eye in an auto accident would.
Seriously I had a kid in high school that got into a car accident caused by someone else and lost an eye. He gets something like $15-$20k a year paid out to him for it for quite a while. Perfectly fine otherwise, except for the eye. Its sad for sure but losing 25 years of your life wrongfully is much worse than that, and much more debilitating, but yet he gets a paltry ammount (assuming he even lives that long to get the full reward)
[quote]Prosecutors called it a "recent development" but would not elaborate on the new evidence, saying it could jeopardise their future case against the real killer.[/quote]
Haha, unless they have the most definitive evidence ever in a murder case they are doomed to lose. They have already staked their credibility, and lost ALL of it, by saying this guy was guilty and sending him to death row. It would take a real idiot of a juror to believe anything prosecutors say in this case now, and it would take a dumber defense lawyer to forget to remind that jury that prosecutors had already falsely convicted the wrong person in this case.
This is why I'm against the death penalty btw. We simply can't fool ourselves into thinking we won't execute innocent people.
The Judge from back then must feel like shit.
[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;44213727]The worst part to this sort of stuff is I believe that's actually happened before.[/QUOTE]
Are you kidding? It happens a shitload. This guy was extremely lucky.
[QUOTE=KorJax;44213984]Its amazing to think though what kind of perspective you have on the world after all that time, and knowing you only have about 10-20 years left to spend it before you bite the dust
Shame the reward amount for all those years is so paltry though. I'd suggest he spend the rest of his days traveling and living the life he never could but with only $7k a year thats pretty much not possible. Well.. maybe. Considering he doesn't have to work for that 7K he could probably spend all his time travelling every year. But reguardless, he spends 25 years in prison wrongfully - a prision system that is practically a "too big to fail" industry - and yet gets less money out of it per year than what a kid who loses an eye in an auto accident would.
Seriously I had a kid in high school that got into a car accident caused by someone else and lost an eye. He gets something like $15-$20k a year paid out to him for it for quite a while. Perfectly fine otherwise, except for the eye. Its sad for sure but losing 25 years of your life wrongfully is much worse than that, and much more debilitating, but yet he gets a paltry ammount (assuming he even lives that long to get the full reward)[/QUOTE]
The article doesn't mention if its payed out every year or in a lump sum, but even so the $250,000 is no fair exchange for 25 years of your life.
[video=youtube;fhGHAfn-RRc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhGHAfn-RRc[/video]
I always like looking back at this video when the topic of the death penalty comes up.
Sajima??
This is just another example how the Death Sentence doesn't work.
Innocent people get convicted all the time and where as life imprisonment means they can just be released, death is a short-sighted permanent solution.
I hope he still sues the ever loving fuck out of system for this. You can't just imprison someone for 1/3rd of their life and just ignore that.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;44213397]I'd love to read about his experiences with modern technology and society. It's not like he was frozen in ice, but he must have something to say after being pretty much disconnected from the rest of the world for 25 years.[/QUOTE]
Kaoma Man
Glenn Ford is an alias of Taiga Saejima, obviously.
[QUOTE=Kenneth;44215063]The article doesn't mention if its payed out every year or in a lump sum, but even so the $250,000 is no fair exchange for 25 years of your life.[/QUOTE]
for caps like that, id say thats probably yearly since he's never going to be able to work a real job or any job really
[editline]12th March 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mebit;44219533]This is just another example how the Death Sentence doesn't work.
Innocent people get convicted all the time and where as life imprisonment means they can just be released, death is a short-sighted permanent solution.
I hope he still sues the ever loving fuck out of system for this. You can't just imprison someone for 1/3rd of their life and just ignore that.[/QUOTE]
remember he was convicted in 1983, the standards have changed quite a lot since then and now its almost impossible to get the death sentence without sufficient evidence and investigation, back then you could get the death sentence purely based on testimoney from unreliable witnesses, most of these cases stem from that time period of the mid 80s to the early 90s when this was possible
[editline]12th March 2014[/editline]
man someone should go get him an apple computer, at least those haven't changed in 25 years
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