jail for 43 years for a triple murder he says he didn't commit has been released and exonerated. It's said fellow inmates in the prison cheered and beat on bars in jail cells as he walked out.Kevin Strickland, 62, from Missouri in the United States, was wrongly convicted of the crimes in 1978, and was found guilty on all charges the following year.
He has pleaded innocence ever since he was arrested for the deaths of Sherrie Black, 22, Larry Ingram, 22, and John Walker, 20, who were targeted in a ransacking in Kansas City on 25 April 1978.
It is thought to be one of the longest cases of wrongful conviction in American history.Strickland was released from Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri on Tuesday, hours after the.
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