Former professional boxer and Toronto-based justice advocate Rubin (Hurricane) Carter says he’s dying and would like to see one final wish come true.

Carter, 77, wants New York State justice officials to take a fresh and unbiased look at what he considers the wrongful murder conviction of David McCallum of Brooklyn .

“I am now quite literally on my deathbed and am making my final wish to those with the legal authority to act,” Carter writes in an article published in the New York Daily News.

McCallum was convicted with his friend Willie Stuckey of a 1985 carjacking in Ozone Park, N.Y., in which a man was shot to death.

McCallum was 16 at the time he made his confession, which he now says was coerced.

Stuckey has already died in prison.

“Their two confessions, gained by force and trickery, are not corroborated even by each other; they read as if two different crimes were committed,” Carter writes.

Carter could not be reached for comment on Sunday. His article does not comment on the reason for his ill health.

He was at the height of his career as a professional middleweight boxer when he was wrongly convicted on June 29, 1967 of a triple murder in Paterson, N.J.

He served 19 years behind bars before a judge ruled that he was convicted because of racism, not evidence.

While behind bars he wrote a book, “ The 16th Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 ,” which brought attention to his case.

It was ultimately championed by an assortment of luminaries, from singer Bob Dylan , who wrote a song “Hurricane,” to boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

Canadian Norman Jewison directed the 1999 movie The Hurricane , starring Denzel Washington as Carter.

York University awarded Carter an honourary doctor of laws degree in 2005 for his work advocating for justice issues.

Toronto-based activists were among those who fought for Carter’s case to be reviewed.

Carter moved to Toronto after he was finally exonerated and for several years, he was executive director of the Toronto-based Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted .

He championed the cases of other wrongly convicted prisoners and also gave motivational speeches in which he spoke of the value of freedom and justice.

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“If I find a heaven after this life, I’ll be quite surprised,” Carter writes. “In my own years on this planet, though, I lived in hell for the first 49 years, and have been in heaven for the past 28 years.

“To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that would be heaven enough for us all.”