The American who was innocently imprisoned for 48 years is finally free outside

21 dec 2023 om 06:13 Update: een uur geleden

After spending 48 years, one month and 18 days in prison, American Glenn Simmons was acquitted of murder on Wednesday.

According to the National Registry of Exonerations, which tracks the length of sentences given to wrongly convicted felons, no person has been wrongfully held in prison in the United States for longer.

Simmons, now 70, and another defendant were convicted in 1975 of killing store employee Carolyn Sue Rogers during a robbery of a liquor store in Edmond, Oklahoma.

The couple were originally sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment, he wrote New York times. The conviction was based on the testimony of an eyewitness who later contradicted himself.

An Oklahoma judge said Wednesday that “clear and convincing evidence” showed that the crime for which Simmons was in prison did not commit. The co-suspect was released on parole in 2008.

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The American who was innocently imprisoned for 48 years is finally free outside

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