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Man held on death row for 30 YEARS freed after being cleared of murder

Free man: Glenn Ford. Photo: Mirror

Louisiana, U.S.A:  A man who spent nearly three decades on death row has walked out of prison a free man after being cleared of murder.

Glenn Ford, a black man, was convicted by an all-white jury of the 1983 robbery and murder of Isadore Rozeman, a 56-year-old watchmaker, who was found shot to death behind the counter of his jewelry shop.

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