O.J. Simpson will be released on parole.

In the United States, O.J. Simpson, the former football and actor hero whose reputation was damaged after he was accused of killing his ex-wife and friend, starting on October 1st, will be released on parole, following charges concerning armed theft.

The decision was made Thursday by the board of the Nevada Condition Free Commission. Simpson, now 70-year-old, appeared before the Board to answer questions as being condemned for a theft and kidnapping along with a group of accomplices, two of whom were armed. But the 1994 murders of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, for whom he was acquitted after the trial most followed in American history, cast a long shadow on his life and reputation.

After being found guilty in the 2008 trial of participating in theft, the judge sentenced Mr. Simpson to 9-33 years in prison, which would say he could be released on bail starting on October 1st of this year. Based on his age and on the fact that over nine years he had been an exemplary prisoner, the Board of the Nevada Condition Commission released him on bail, on the first time that he had the right to seek his release.