CHICAGO Anthony Porter, a Chicago man on death for 16 years for a 1982 double murder, was freed on bond here Friday after another man confessed to the crime. Porter came within two days of being put to death by lethal injection last September, but the Illinois Supreme Court stayed the execution after Porter's lawyers argued that he had a low IQ and was not mentally fit to be executed.

He hugged some of the northwestern university journalism students who helped track down Alstory Simon, the Milwaukee man who has now confessed to the crime. (AFP)