The city of Edmond, Oklahoma, has reached a $7.15 million settlement with Glynn Simmons, a man who spent 48 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Simmons, now 71 years old, was released in July 2023 after his murder conviction in a 1974 shooting was vacated by a judge at the request of the Oklahoma County district attorney. His case was ultimately dismissed in December 2023.
Simmons holds the record for the longest wrongful incarceration in the United States, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. The average wrongful incarceration duration is just over nine years, as reported by the registry.
