'No More Bars': Exonerated Kansas Man Returns Home 23 Years Later
"I can just touch him anytime I want," says Rosie McIntyre, whose son Lamonte had been serving two life sentences for double homicide.
Outside the Wyandotte County Courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas, a crowd gathered around Lamonte McIntyre.
It was October, on Friday the 13th, but McIntyre felt lucky. After serving 23 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, he became a free man.
“I felt human for the first time,” he says, recalling those first moments. “I felt like I had my life back.”
Just 2,100 men and. Like McIntyre, of all exonerees convicted of murder are black.
