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Piers Morgan Uncensored

"I Spent 48 Years In Prison For A Murder I Didn’t Commit"

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Society & Culture, Sports, News

3.6375 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

At the age of 21, Glynn Simmons was jailed for 48 years for a murder he didn't commit. He speaks to Piers about his incarceration and fight for justice. YouTube: @PiersMorganUncensored X: @PiersUncensored TikTok: @piersmorganuncensored Insta: @piersmorganuncensored Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

At the age of just 21, Glenn Simmons agreed to take part in a police lineup.

0:04.4

He didn't even know he had the right to refuse.

0:06.8

It was the first in a shocking chain of events that saw him jailed for the next 48 years

0:12.3

for a murder he didn't commit.

0:14.2

Glenn Simmons was convicted of shooting two Edmund women during a liquor store robbery in

0:19.1

1974. In a nearly 50-year fight for justice is over.

0:23.6

The longest wrongful sentence ever in the US.

0:26.6

Nobody in American history has spent longer behind bars

0:30.6

only to be completely exonerated.

0:33.6

It's like being born again, you know?

0:35.6

You were sentenced to death in the electric chair.

0:40.1

Sometimes insanity sits in and became a refuge at times, you know.

0:44.6

I'm pissed. I'm still pissed, but this pissed, you know, it's energy.

0:49.1

You know, I'm pissed off enough to make something right.

0:51.0

What was the best and worst thing about the world that you found 50 years later?

0:57.1

I haven't found nothing bad yet.

0:58.7

This gets better for me every day.

1:00.6

Now finally he's free and Glenn Simmons joins Uncensory.

1:08.8

Well, Mr. Simmons, first of all, this is one of the most extraordinary miscarriages of justice I think I've ever read about.

1:16.1

I've interviewed many, many people who've been in and out of prison in my career.

1:20.5

Nothing quite like yours.

1:22.8

And what shines through about your story is that never once did you waver and take the easy option

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