can you imagine spending fifty years in prison for a murder that you didn't commit and then only being eligible for one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in compensation well that's exactly what happened to glenn simmons he was accused of killing a woman in a liquor store in nineteen seventy four and was initially sentenced to death so what's changed fifty years later a court found that prosecutors hadn't turned over crucial evidence it included a police report that showed an eyewitness may have identified other suspects so gleams now free but he's seventy one years old and surviving off a go fund me page his case is the longest known wrongful sentence in us history