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2 Black men wrongfully sent to death row awarded $75M in damages
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Brothers Wrongfully Sent to Death Row Awarded $75M in Damages for Decades in Prison
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Two brothers offered $75 million after being wrongly imprisoned for 31 years over murder of 11-year-old girl
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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.
2 men wrongfully sent to death row awarded $75M in damages
RALEIGH (AP) A jury in a North Carolina federal civil rights case has awarded $75 million to two Black, intellectually disabled half brothers who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
The eight-person jury on Friday decided Henry McCollum and Leon Brown should received $31 million each in compensatory damages, $1 million for every year spent in prison, The News & Observer reported. The jury also awarded them $13 million in punitive damages.
“The first jury to hear all of the evidence including the wrongly suppressed evidence found Henry and Leon to be innocent, found them to have been demonstrably and excruciatingly wronged, and has done what the law can do to make it right at this late date,” Raleigh attorney Elliot Abrams said after the trial.