Death cuts off dreams of man recently freed after 3 decades wrongfully in prison

We can be sad that his freedom was cut short or we can celebrate that he attained it before the end. Both can be true.

The headline is really an odd convoluted way of saying "Man dead after being released from prison." I suppose they're tyring to make ti seem like he was some kind of angel who was wrongly convicted and unfairly dropped dead when released.

But he himself said he wasn't an angel and in fact was a petty criminal (at best) and possibly involved in a murder (at worst). So while it's sad he may have been wrongly imprisoned for so long it's hard to feel bad for his passing away. I mean, he didn't have good chances anyway and his life was going to end in prison anyway at some point.