Ricky Jackson forgives Eddie Vernon — Transcript

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1. 0:00yes it was young Vernon's testimony that
2. 0:03put Jackson on death row I could halfway
3. 0:06accept my punishment if I was guilty but
4. 0:10skills thanks you did Vernon eventually
5. 0:21confided in his pastor Anthony singleton
6. 0:23I shall be with you I'll support you he
7. 0:27just bust out crying it's like something
8. 0:31just came out of him the Ohio Innocence
9. 0:35Project asked for a new trial basically
10. 0:37dismissed Vernon took the stand in a
11. 0:39Cleveland courtroom and this time he
12. 0:42told the truth it's been seven weeks
13. 0:45since Jackson now 57 walked out of court
14. 0:49a free man after his murder conviction
15. 0:51was overturned he spent all of his adult
16. 0:54life behind bars this is my living room
17. 0:57dining room slash bedroom today
18. 1:00Jackson's reclaiming his life studying
19. 1:03for his driver's test signing up for a
20. 1:06library card now official but there was
21. 1:09something else he needed to do fire big
22. 1:11finally come here man
23. 1:12forgive the man who put it behind bars I
24. 1:17took a lot of courage to do what you did
25. 1:19man thank you man yes I brother yes we
26. 1:24were both victims man azide okay I do
27. 1:27forgive you man I wanted to be here
28. 1:29personally to tell you that Wow how
29. 1:32could this man hug and embrace me after
30. 1:37all these years I didn't always feel
31. 1:39this way about Edward for a lot of years
32. 1:41I really hated him you know for what he
33. 1:44did to us mistakes were made man you
34. 1:47know but I knew I had to do this because
35. 1:49I desperately want to move forward with
36. 1:52my life and the only way I can do that
37. 1:55is to forgive him
38. 1:57two men imprisoned by a lie set free by
39. 2:01the truth
40. 2:02Vicente Adina CBS News Cleveland Ohio