The long-awaited freedom

An employee grocery store in Texas, USA, received the long-awaited freedom, spending 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife, he did not commit. DNA tests showed that the crime committed by another man, reports the Associated Press.

57- year-old Michael Morton (Michael Morton) was convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to life imprisonment in August 1986 for the murder of his wife, Christine (Christine). All these years, Morton claimed that he left for work, leaving home alive and unharmed the wife and three sons, and made ​​a killing intruder.
Prosecutors held a different view: they believe Morton killed his wife in a fit of rage because she refused to join him in a sexual relationship after celebrating her 32nd birthday.
After Circuit Judge Harl Sid (Sid Harle) Morton proclaimed a free man, he embraced his parents and talked to reporters, barely holding back tears. He said that thanks God for the fact that his case was not a case about the crime for which defendant facing the death penalty. Morton managed to maintain life, so that the organization Innocence Project had time to prove his innocence.

New York-based Innocence Project specializes in DNA analysis, which allows you to cancel the erroneous sentences. This summer, using the above technique is not available to the authorities discovered the DNA Christine Morton on the bloody handkerchief, found near the house of Morton soon after her death, as well as the DNA of the murderer, whose name was not disclosed.