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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2727040" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>x-prosecutor of exonerated death row inmate pens apology</p><p> March 25, 2015 </p><p></p><p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) - It was a long journey of conscience for a former Louisiana prosecutor. He went from celebrating a death sentence with rounds of drinks three decades ago to writing an anguished, open letter of apology after the convicted man was recently declared innocent and set free.</p><p></p><p>"I apologize to Glenn Ford for all the misery I have caused him and his family," A.M. Stroud III wrote in a letter published in The Times of Shreveport. "I apologize to the family of Mr. Rozeman for giving them the false hope of some closure."</p><p></p><p>Ford is the exonerated prisoner released earlier this month from the Louisiana State Penitentiary after serving just shy of 30 years on death row. Isadore Rozeman was the elderly victim who was killed in a 1983 robbery.</p><p></p><p>Stroud's letter was more than just an apology. It was a condemnation of the state's decision to oppose compensating the now cancer-stricken Ford for three decades' lost. It was also a firm statement against capital punishment.</p><p></p><p>"Glenn Ford deserves every penny owed to him under the compensation statute," Stroud wrote. "This case is another example of the arbitrariness of the death penalty. I now realize, all too painfully, that as a young 33-year-old prosecutor, I was not capable of making a decision that could have led to the killing of another human being."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/us/article/Ex-prosecutor-of-exonerated-death-row-inmate-pens-6157323.php" target="_blank">http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/us/article/Ex-prosecutor-of-exonerated-death-row-inmate-pens-6157323.php</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2727040, member: 7629"] x-prosecutor of exonerated death row inmate pens apology March 25, 2015 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - It was a long journey of conscience for a former Louisiana prosecutor. He went from celebrating a death sentence with rounds of drinks three decades ago to writing an anguished, open letter of apology after the convicted man was recently declared innocent and set free. "I apologize to Glenn Ford for all the misery I have caused him and his family," A.M. Stroud III wrote in a letter published in The Times of Shreveport. "I apologize to the family of Mr. Rozeman for giving them the false hope of some closure." Ford is the exonerated prisoner released earlier this month from the Louisiana State Penitentiary after serving just shy of 30 years on death row. Isadore Rozeman was the elderly victim who was killed in a 1983 robbery. Stroud's letter was more than just an apology. It was a condemnation of the state's decision to oppose compensating the now cancer-stricken Ford for three decades' lost. It was also a firm statement against capital punishment. "Glenn Ford deserves every penny owed to him under the compensation statute," Stroud wrote. "This case is another example of the arbitrariness of the death penalty. I now realize, all too painfully, that as a young 33-year-old prosecutor, I was not capable of making a decision that could have led to the killing of another human being." [url]http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/us/article/Ex-prosecutor-of-exonerated-death-row-inmate-pens-6157323.php[/url] [/QUOTE]
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