A wrongly incarcerated man is now enjoying his newfound freedom as he wowed judges with a soulful performance on America’s Got Talent.
Archie Williams, 59, had been convicted of rape 37 years ago even though forensic evidence against him was lacking, The Christian Post reports.
At merely 22 years of age, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at Angola state penitentiary in Louisiana, which is one of America’s deadliest prisons.
“Freedom is of the mind, I went to prison, but I never let my mind go to prison,” Williams told show host Terry Crews on Tuesday’s AGT broadcast.
As “a poor black” kid, Williams lacked the financial capacity to defend himself against the State of Louisiana.
Nevertheless, he asserted that music and his faith allowed him to persist through life’s storms.
“When you’re faced with dark times, what I would do is I would pray and sing; this is how I got peace,” he said.
The singer was finally able to taste freedom in 2019 with the help from the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization that specializes in exonerating falsely convicted individuals.
In taking on Williams’ case, the Innocence Project was able to exonerate him after finding DNA evidence through fingerprint analysis.
The results showed that Stephen Forbes was the true culprit. Forbes had multiple counts of sexual assault.
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