They spent 42 years in prison, the Court declares them innocent: That's their statement.

Cliff Williams Jr was 34 years old, and his grandson, Hubert Nathan Myers 18 in May 1976.

They were at a party in Jacksonville, Florida, when two women were shot in a nearby apartment, one of them fatally. The men were soon arrested and sentenced to eternal sources.

On Thursday, the state lifted their sentence and released them.

Williams and Myers shook their hands and embraced long after joining family members in court. Myers even kissed the ground under him.

I'm nervous because I feel like I'm still in handcuffs, he said “to join my family and know I can look back... and so reality comes, and I think I'll be fine. ”

There had been no witnesses and no evidence

The woman who survived the assassination in 1976 had told the police that Willams and Myers had emptied their weapons from the foot of the bed she shared with the murdered woman, Periscope follows.

But the evidence showed that the shots were made from outside, and with the same gun.

Still, Williams and Myers were sentenced to murder and attempted murder after a two - day trial. Their lawyers presented no evidence or witnesses, although other people who had been at the party said that they had been with them when they were heard in a hurry.

Both had always been declared innocent.

But then, after 42 years in prison, another man had confessed that he had committed the murder and that he felt bad that Williams and Myers had been imprisoned for it. That man was dead in 1994.

I've lost 43 years of my life that I can never get back,” said Myers. /Periscopi