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Nov 17, 2021 · “It feels so wonderful,” said Montgomery during an interview with The Associated Press. When asked what he plans to do now that he is out of prison, Montgomery said he wanted to pay his respects to his mother and grandmother and other family members who died when he was behind bars.
- rsantana@ap.org
- Homeland Security Reporter
Nov 17, 2021 · Henry Montgomery walked out of prison Wednesday after spending his adult life at the Louisiana State Penitentiary for a crime he was convicted of in 1963.
- Erin Brady
Nov 17, 2021 · After the Supreme Court decision, he was resentenced in 2017 to life with parole and the state judge who resentenced Montgomery called him a "model prisoner" who appears to be rehabilitated.
Nov 17, 2021 · When Henry Montgomery was incarcerated as a teenager in 1963 for killing an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy, John F. Kennedy was still alive and Dr. Martin Luther King.
Nov 19, 2021 · Montgomery was 17 at the time. He was initially sentenced to death but the state's Supreme Court threw out his conviction in 1966, saying he didn't get a fair trial. The case was retried, Montgomery convicted again but this time sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Nov 17, 2021 · The case was retried, Montgomery convicted again but this time sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He served decades at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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Nov 11, 2021 · He was initially sentenced to death, but the Louisiana Supreme Court decided that racial tensions, including Ku Klux Klan activity in the area, had influenced the jury’s decision. Instead, the ...
