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                    US Man Freed After Decades on Death Row

   It`s the kind of story movies are made of. A U.S. man who spent nearly
   three decades on death row is now walking free.
   Glenn Ford, the longest-serving death row prisoner in the state of
   Louisiana, was released after new evidence showed he was innocent of
   the murder that put him behind bars.
   A judge in the city of Shreveport ordered the 64-year-old Ford released
   after prosecutors petitioned the court to set aside his first-degree
   murder conviction and death sentence.
   Ford, a black man, was convicted by an all-white jury in the 1983
   murder of Isadore Rozeman, a jeweler in Shreveport.
   Ford had done occasional yard work for Rozeman. But Ford`s attorneys
   say the new evidence corroborates his claim that he was not present or
   involved in Rozeman`s death.
   Exiting the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola Tuesday, Ford said
   "it feels good" to be free. Asked if he harbors any resentment for his
   wrongful imprisonment, he said, "Yeah, because I was locked up almost
   30 years. For something I didn`t do." He said when he went to prison,
   his sons were babies. Now, they are grown men, with babies of their
   own.
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