May 13, Isaiah McCoy, walked out of Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington, Del. He is currently in a federal detention center in Honolulu, where prosecutors accuse him of sex trafficking.
Isaiah McCoy walked out of a Delaware prison a free man in January , five years after being convicted of murder and sentenced to death. A judge found him not guilty at a retrial, and McCoy soon began enjoying the limelight that came with his exoneration. He reveled in speaking engagements before lawyers associations and anti-death penalty groups.
But in less than a year, he went from death row in Delaware to giving speeches about wrongful convictions to back behind bars. Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It's FREE! They say McCoy became a pimp after moving to Hawaii and that he threatened and coerced young women into prostitution. McCoy traces his criminal history to a tender age, 7 or 8, when he began dealing drugs, which led to gang membership.
But after years landing in and out prisons and jails, he seemed to have some direction and hope when he was released from death row. He was able to hug his daughter β conceived right before he went to prison β for the first time. While McCoy was in L. McCoy thought it would be a good opportunity to visit his mother and siblings who had moved to Hawaii.
McCoy sounded well-spoken and sincere at the April Hawaii speaking engagement, said Kenneth Lawson, co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project, who also spoke at the rally. By September, McCoy was in the news. He spoke to a Honolulu TV news station after a friend was arrested and charged with a fatal Waikiki shooting.
