US woman Gloria Figueroa urged a judge to release the man convicted of killing her brother. Gloria Figueroa, whose brother, Jorge Figueroa, was murdered in a US basement in 1982, stopped sobbing to the front of a Philadelphia courtroom. That man, Orlando Maisonet, 60, spent 28 years on death row for the murder, but always contended that two heavily armed, violent drug dealers, Simon and Heriberto Pirela, killed Figueroa and forced Maisonet to help dispose of the body. "I think (she) is waiting to make me a mama's boy again," said Maisonet, a stout man with a bald head, glasses and a salt-and-pepper goatee. Maisonet agreed to a plea rather than take this case to trial.

Source: Stuff May 10, 2019 01:52 UTC