Maurice Hastings in Newsweek: 'I Spent 38 Years in Prison for a Crime I Didn't Commit'

The day I was arrested it felt like the whole world had caved in on me. I'd read about these kinds of tragedies before; these acts of fate. The person standing on the corner, catching the transit bus, who gets shot and killed by a stray bullet. I wondered, was I one of those people? One of those people you read about and think: "It's sad that person lost their life." Would I be someone who was condemned to die in prison?