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Overturned

Conviction and exoneration of Glenn Ford

Year
1984
Where
Louisiana
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

Glenn Ford (October 29, 1949 – June 29, 2015) was convicted of murder in 1984 and released from Angola Prison in March 10, 2014 after a full exoneration. Ford was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was the longest-serving death-row inmate in the United States to be exonerated before his death.

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