Georgia man walks out of prison after conviction in 1985 double murder overturned

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A South Georgia man who has spent the past 20 years behind bars was released from prison Thursday afternoon. The same judge that overturned the conviction of Dennis Perry in the killing of a married couple in a Camden County church has ordered Perry freed on his own recognizance pending a retrial.

“I said I was going to pray my way out of here,” Perry said as he walked out of the Coffee County Correctional Facility. “That’s what I have done..

Perry was arrested in 2000 and convicted in 2003 in the killing of deacon Harold Swain and his wife, Thelma in 1985.

Perry’s family, who watched the virtual bond hearing on their phones from outside the Glynn County Courthouse, cheered when they heard the news. His wife and first cousin got to speak with Perry on the phone immediately after the hearing, then headed for the prison to take Perry home.

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