A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has walked free, after prosecutors asked a judge to set aside his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence, citing new evidence in the case that exonerated him.
Glenn Ford, 64, was convicted by an all-white jury for the 1983 robbery and murder of Isadore Rozeman, a 56-year-old Shreveport watchmaker, who was found shot dead behind the counter of his jewellery shop.
Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi reports from Washington.
