Brothers Wrongfully Sent To Death Row Awarded $75 Million In Damages
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They were released from prison in 2014 after being given full pardon of innocence
They brought the civil case against law enforcement members in 2015
Two death-row inmates in North Carolina were awarded $75 million in damages Friday after being wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983.
In a federal civil rights case, the North Carolina Jury decided that the intellectually disabled half-brothers Henry McCollum and Leon Brown should be awarded $31 million each for spending decades behind the bar on death row. Each of the brothers is set to receive $1 million for every year they spent in prison after they were wrongfully convicted, reported The News & Observer.