Isaiah McCoy spent six years on death row and is now free after a judge decided he was not guilty during his retrial. The retrial was granted after the prosecutor from the first trial was found to have threatened McCoy then lied to the judge about it. 

I hope they bring a lawsuit against that original prosecutor and put him on death row for as long as McCoy was there. 

Isaiah McCoy, a death row prisoner for years, walked out of the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington and into his young daughters’ embraces on Thursday night just hours after a judge found him not guilty of murder in his second trial.

Outside the prison’s barbed wire fence and heavy doors, McCoy, 29, became emotional as he reunited with his girls and with the team of attorneys and an investigator who helped get him acquitted of the 2010 killing of 30-year-old James Munford.

“I just want to say to all those out there going through the same thing I’m going through ‘keep faith, keep fighting,” McCoy said. “Two years ago, I was on death row. At 25, I was given a death sentence – and I am today alive and well and kicking and a free man.”

A spokesman for the Department of Justice said prosecutors were disappointed by the verdict from Kent County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Young.

“While we are disappointed with the outcome of this case, we respect the decision of this court. This was a difficult case and the court indicated the basis for its decision at the time of the verdict,” spokesman Carl Kanefsky said.

The path to McCoy’s acquittal has been long.