In an incredible miscarriage of justice, a
prosecutor admits his cowardice and indifference led to the wrongful
murder conviction of a man sentenced to death. The following is a script from "30 Years on Death Row"
which aired on October 11, 2015. Bill Whitaker is the correspondent. Ira
Rosen and Habiba Nosheen, producers. "There may be no greater
miscarriage of justice than to wrongfully convict a person of murder
and sentence him to death. But that's exactly what happened to Glenn
Ford. He spent nearly 30 years on death row, in solitary confinement,
in Louisiana's notorious Angola prison until new evidence revealed he
did not commit the murder. He
was one of 149 inmates freed from death row since the U.S. Supreme
Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. In all those exonerations,
you have likely never heard a prosecutor admit his role and apologize
for his mistakes in sending an innocent man to death row. But tonight, a
prosecutor's confession. Marty Stroud, speaks of an injustice he calls
so great it destroyed two lives: Glenn Ford's, and his own."
The entire script can be found at the following link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/30-years-on-death-row-exoneration-60-minutes/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/30-years-on-death-row-exoneration-60-minutes/