A Pittsburgh man who was convicted with his codefendant younger brother in a 1984 homicide in Cranberry Township will be released from state prison after 37 years incarceration after pleading guilty Monday in Common Pleas Court to third degree murder in a plea agreement.

Ronald Alfred Williams, 68, whose death sentence was reduced to life in prison in 1989 for his role in the shooting death of Archie S. Bradley, 38, in the parking lot of Nor-Sub Trucking on Route 19, where he worked as a truck driver., will be released from custody.

Racial bias among the jury that convicted Ronald Williams and his brother, Raymond Williams, was the basis of appeals Ronald Williams filed beginning in the late 1980s and led to the plea agreement that Judge Kelley Streib accepted Monday.

The appeals and motions for relief went to federal court where the U.S. attorney's and public defenders offices negotiated the plea agreement.

Ronald Williams pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Because he already spent 37 years behind bars, Ronald Williams will be released.

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