A jury in North Carolina has awarded $75 million to two Black men with intellectual disabilities who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983. An eight-person jury awarded half-brothers Henry McCollum and Leon Brown $31 million each after they …
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Three Queens men wrongfully convicted of a 1996 double homicide were released from prison on Friday after having their convictions overturned. CNN reports that a Queens Supreme Court judge vacated George Bell, Gary Johnson, and Rohan Bolt’s convictions. The men were convicted in 1996 for the murders of Astoria business owner …
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After spending 35 years in prison for a murder she did not commit in Nevada, Cathy Woods, 68, was exonerated by DNA evidence on a crime-scene cigarette butt. Now, she will be receiving $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, according to her lawyer. According …
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