Darryl Burton, who spent 24 years of his life in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, will speak Monday as part of a Martin Luther King Jr. service in Iola.
The service will be at 7 p.m. at Iola’s Ward Chapel AME Church, at the intersection of Lincoln and Buckeye streets.
Burton’s story garnered national headlines in 2008 when he was released from prison after the state overturned his conviction for the 1984 murder of a drug dealer in his native St. Louis.