By FRANK MAIN
Staff Reporter
April 19, 2014 9:40AM
Anthony Porter is angry.
He’s come within hours of being executed after he was convicted of killing two people.
He was freed from Death Row after another man, Alstory Simon, confessed to the murders.
He got a pardon, but he didn’t get a dime when he sued the city and the cops for framing him.
And now, there’s a serious push to strip away what little Porter has left: his claim of innocence.
Attorneys pushing for Simon’s release from prison say the justice system got it right the first time — that the evidence points to Porter all along in the notorious double murder in 1982 at a South Side park.
Porters’ friends and supporters argue that a racist conspiracy is trying to rewrite history and make a victim, Porter, into a villain once again.
“Yeah, I’m innocent, man,” Porter said in an interview that was sometimes tense and combative.
“They keep on bringing the same old stuff up,” Porter told the Chicago Sun-Times, as he was surrounded by supporters.