“Brother Glenn spent more than 48 years imprisoned in Oklahoma for a murder he did not commit. Exonerated in 2023, he had only about three years to experience freedom. 48 years taken, three years returned… An overturned conviction cannot overturn the passage of time.”

…three years returned. Think about that. We celebrate exonerations, but what happens? What happens after the headlines disappear? What about the birthdays, the funerals, the children growing older, and the parents who passed away? I'm grateful Brother Glenn took his final breath outside of the prison walls. But I grieve, and I know I grieve with others, the life he was never permitted to live. An overturned conviction cannot overturn the passage of time. And I know I'm speaking to somebody tonight. And when somebody spends nearly half a century fighting to establish their innocence, freedom alone cannot represent the full measure of justice. Moving on, tonight I stand with the Lucio family with Death Penalty Action and abolitionists worldwide who continue advocating and praying for Melissa Lucio's freedom. Despite a trial judges finding…