Almost one year after being exonerated and freed from prison after serving nearly 37 years for a crime he didn't commit, singer Archie Williams brought his vocal talents to the stage in the season premiere.
After he was done, there wasn't a dry eye among the panel of judges.Williams, 59, shared his story with the cameras before taking the stage and explained how, when he was 22 years old, he was arrested for raping and stabbing a woman in Louisiana.«I knew I was innocent, I didn't commit a crime.
But being a poor black kid, I didn't have the ability to fight the state of Louisiana,» Williams said, explaining that, despite three witnesses testifying that he was at home the night of the crime, and that his fingerprints didn't match those