`` Glenn Ford is living proof of just how flawed our justice system truly is . " Ford was behind bars for a murder he did not commit . ` ` My sons -- when I left -- was young . Now they are men with babies , '' he says . Ford had been on death row since 1963 for the murder of Isadore Smith .
" Ford was behind bars for a murder he did not commit . ` ` My sons -- when I left -- was young . Now they are men with babies , '' he says . Ford had been on death row since 1963 for the murder of Isadore Smith .