Convicted then acquitted of murder, Anthony Wright is now a free man

A day after murder acquittal, Anthony Wright rejoices in family, friends, freedom

A man who spent 25 years in prison for a rape and murder that a jury concluded he didn’t commit, Anthony Wright was emotional and tearful, elated and optimistic. Bitter, he was not. “I worship a merciful God and he forgives,” Wright, 44, said at a news conference Wednesday, a day after he was acquitted at retrial in the 1991 death of a 77-year-old Nicetown woman.