A city in Oklahoma agrees to pay more than $7 million to an exonerated former death row inmate
Associated Press
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma city has agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after nearly 50 years in prison. Seventy-one-year-old Glynn Ray Simmons is the longest-serving inmate to be declared innocent of a crime. The Edmond City Council on Monday voted without comment to settle the lawsuit filed by Simmons against the city and a former police detective. Simmons maintained his innocence in the 1974 fatal shooting of a liquor store clerk in the Oklahoma City suburb, saying he was in Louisiana at the time.
