Man, 64, freed after 26 years on death row in US

A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free, hours after a judge approved the state’s motion to throw out his murder conviction in the 1983 killing of a jeweller.

Glenn Ford, 64, had been on death row since August 1988 in connection with the death of Isadore Rozeman, 56, a Shreveport jeweller and watchmaker for whom Ford had done occasional yard work. Ford had always denied killing Rozeman.

Rozeman was found shot to death behind the counter of his shop on November 5, 1983. Reports say no murder weapon was ever found and there were no eyewitnesses to the crime.