Half Brothers Awarded $75M After Being Wrongfully Convicted and Sent to Death Row

Half Brothers Awarded $75M After Being Wrongfully Convicted and Sent to Death Row
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A federal civil rights jury in North Carolina has awarded $75 million to two Black, mentally handicapped half brothers who spent years in prison after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.

According to The News & Observer, an eight-person judge determined on Friday that Henry McCollum and Leon Brown should collect $31 million each in punitive damages, with $1 million for each year spent in prison. In addition, the jury awarded them $13 million in punitive damages.

Since 2015, McCollum and Brown have been pursuing a civil case against law enforcement personnel, claiming that their civil rights were being violated during the questioning that led to their prosecutions.

After forensic evidence that pointed to a convicted killer exonerated the two, they were freed from prison in 2014. They were both teenagers at the time of the murder, which took place in Red Springs, Robeson County.

Source: Yahoo

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