Tyler had been jailed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola since he was 16, convicted of first-degree murder for the 1974 slaying of a fellow Destrehan High School student amid rising racial tensions surrounding school integration. Now 57, he was released Friday. Norris Henderson, a counselor working with Tyler to help ease his re-entry into society, said Tyler's first reaction after walking out of Angola was relief. "For lack of a better word," Henderson said in a telephone interview. "He said it felt as if a burden had been lifted. He went in there when he was a child, at 16. He's coming out as an adult and that's going to be challenging."
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Tyler had been jailed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola since he was 16, convicted of first-degree murder for the 1974 slaying of a fellow Destrehan High School student amid rising racial tensions surrounding school integration. Now 57, he was released Friday.
Norris Henderson, a counselor working with Tyler to help ease his re-entry into society, said Tyler's first reaction after walking out of Angola was relief.
"For lack of a better word," Henderson said in a telephone interview. "He said it felt as if a burden had been lifted. He went in there when he was a child, at 16. He's coming out as an adult and that's going to be challenging."
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