Bulletin: Glenn Ford: Louisiana; CBS: 60 Minutes to focus on Glenn Ford wrongful death row conviction on Sunday, October 11; Sunday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT. "Last year after Ford spent three decades in a maximum security prison, it was discovered that the state had gotten the wrong man." Stroud now says he ignored evidence suggesting others were involved in the murder. "I should have followed up on that. I didn't do that. I think my failure to say something can only be described as cowardice. I was a coward," he tells Whitaker in the report. "I was arrogant, narcissistic, caught up in the culture of winning." "I've got a hole in me through which the north wind blows. It's a sense of coldness, it's a sense of just disgust." Ford was interviewed for the 60 Minutes story. Asked whether he could forgive Stroud, he replied, "He didn't only take from me; he took from my whole family… I don't [forgive him]. But I'm still trying to."

"A Louisiana case profiled in a series of Mike Perlstein reports on WWL-TV will be highlighted by 60 Minutes on Sunday. The former prosecutor who sent Glenn Ford to Louisiana's death row for 30 years, for a crime he did not commit, will tell 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker he was "a coward" and will admit his role in Ford's wrongful conviction. Ford died earlier this summer, just over a year after being freed from prison. "It was 1983 in Shreveport, Louisiana when a local jeweler had been robbed and murdered. Quickly, the prosecutor on the case, Marty Stroud, was convinced he had the man who did it, Glenn Ford," reads 60 Minutes' press release on Sunday's story. "The evidence against Ford was circumstantial. The jury quickly came back with a guilty verdict and sentenced Ford to death. Last year after Ford spent three decades in a maximum security prison, it was discovered that the state had gotten the wrong man." Stroud now says he ignored evidence suggesting others were involved in the murder. "I should have followed up on that. I didn't do that. I think my failure to say something can only be described as cowardice. I was a coward," he tells Whitaker in the report. "I was arrogant, narcissistic, caught up in the culture of winning." "I've got a hole in me through which the north wind blows. It's a sense of coldness, it's a sense of just disgust." Ford was interviewed for the 60 Minutes story. Asked whether he could forgive Stroud, he replied, "He didn't only take from me; he took from my whole family… I don't [forgive him]. But I'm still trying to." In a cruel twist, when Glenn Ford filed for compensation of $330,000 for his wrongful imprisonment to the State of Louisiana, the state stepped in to deny it."... See the full story Sunday on 60 Minutes, airing at 6:30 p.m. after NFL on CBS coverage.
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