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Author: Andrea Armstrong

The death penalty as seen by Glenn Ford

March 11, 2025 Updated March 27, 2025
Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row. Despite being sentenced to death, Glenn and others on the Row refused to forget their humanity.  

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