Ricky Jackson, 57, leaves the courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio, November 21, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Palmer

A man who was sentenced to death for a killing he didn’t commit and spent nearly four decades behind bars will receive more than $1 million from the state for wrongful imprisonment, a court ruled Thursday.

Ricky Jackson, 58, was one of three men sent to death row in 1975 after being convicted of aggravated murder in the slaying of a businessman outside a corner store in Cleveland. Cuyahoga Count