Glenn Ford Exonerated After Spending 30 YEARS On Louisiana Death Row [HD] — Transcript

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1. 0:00now to a man who spent nearly three
2. 0:01decades on death throw in an American
3. 0:03jail he's finally walked free Glenn Ford
4. 0:05whose black was convicted 30 Years Ago
5. 0:08by an all-white jury for killing a
6. 0:09jeweler well a judge overturned his
7. 0:12conviction when new information showed
8. 0:13he was not even at the scene of the
9. 0:15murder grania Harrington has more
10. 0:19details he's no longer a dead man
11. 0:21walking but Glenn Ford is passed his
12. 0:24prime those years were spent Behind Bars
13. 0:27waiting for his death warrant to be
14. 0:28signed my mind going in all kind of
15. 0:31Direction but it feel good do you you
16. 0:33Harbor any
17. 0:35resentment yeah because I was locked up
18. 0:38almost 30 years was something I didn't
19. 0:40do he was sentenced to death at the age
20. 0:43of 34 accused of robbing and murdering a
21. 0:46jeweler for whom he'd done some casual
22. 0:48work Ford had cooperated with the
23. 0:50investigation from the start but the
24. 0:53defense team say his trial was severely
25. 0:55flawed prosecutors rejected potential
26. 0:58black jurors and Ford's lawyers say
27. 1:00evidence proving his innocence was
28. 1:03suppressed it took the all-h jury just 3
29. 1:06hours to convict him it would take
30. 1:08Louisiana's justice system three decades
31. 1:10to put it
32. 1:12right prosecutors say new evidence shows
33. 1:14Ford wasn't even present at the murder
34. 1:16scene the question of why it took so
35. 1:18long to come to light remains to be
36. 1:20answered 30 years of my life if not all
37. 1:23of it CU I I can't go back and do
38. 1:26anything that I should have been doing
39. 1:28when I was like 35 38 40 stuff like that
40. 1:32my sons when I left with babies now they
41. 1:34grown man with babies he may finally
42. 1:37have found his freedom but Justice is
43. 1:40still a long way off gr Harrington BBC
44. 1:43News