Obituary: Kathleen Melanie (Littlefield) Sproul
AUGUSTA - Kathleen Melanie (Littlefield) Sproul died on April 9, 2021 at her home in Augusta at the age of 69 .
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Kathleen Melanie (Littlefield) Sproul
AUGUSTA – Kathleen Melanie (Littlefield) Sproul died on April 9, 2021 at her home in Augusta at the age of 69 years old. She died after a 10-year battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disease of which there is no cure and little is known.
Born on June 24, 1951, Kathy was the second child born to Dexter Parker Littlefield and Patricia M. (O’Grady) Littlefield in Worcester, Mass. They moved to Belfast when Kathy was still quite young. She attended Belfast public schools, graduating from Belfast Area High School in 1969. In high school, Kathy sang in chorus, participated in school plays and American Field Service. She later attended Beal Business College in Bangor.
Other states have similar caps. Mississippi law allows annual payments of $50,000 for each year a person is wrongfully incarcerated but sets a maximum of 10 years payment.
Curtis Flowers, a man who spent 23 years on death row after being convicted in the 1996 shooting deaths of four people in Mississippi, was tried six times, with each trial resulting in an overturned conviction or mistrial.
In 2020, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the state would not try the case a seventh time, leaving Flowers a free man. And in March, a state judge ruled Flowers would receive the state s maximum compensation of $500,000.
Lau said Long s case and those similar highlight the inadequacy in the cap and Long shouldn t have needed a pardon from Gov. Roy Cooper to receive the money.