WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A man who was released from prison last year after more than two decades on Delaware’s death row and was facing a retrial in a 1991 slaying pleaded no contest Monday to second-degree murder.

After entering the plea, Jermaine Wright, 43, was immediately sentenced to time served.

“After 24 years incarcerated, I would just like to go home,” Wright told Superior Court Judge Eric Davis before being sentenced to the maximum 20 years.

Wright was expected to be released from custody later Monday and return to his mother’s home and a barbecue celebration.

Wright’s plea comes six weeks after Delaware’s Supreme Court declared the state’s death penalty law unconstitutional, although his plea was not directly related to the ruling. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December on whether the ruling can be applied retroactively to the 13 men currently on death row.

Wright was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of Phillip Seifert, 66, a clerk at a liquor store and bar outside Wilmington.

His plea brings an end to a decades-long legal saga that centered on a confession he gave to police following a nearly 13-hour interrogation that took place while he was under the influence of heroin. Defense attorneys also had argued that someone else may have killed Seifert.

Seifert’s son, Royce Seifert, however, angrily denounced the justice system as “broken.” In a statement to the court, he said that Wright’s confession to police included details that only the killer would have known.

“It has taken 9,374 days to get to this point,” Seifert said, adding that his family had persevered over the years in the hope of seeing justice done.