Posted on 05/17/2021 2:42:19 PM PDT by deport
Two North Carolina men who were wrongfully convicted in a rape and murder of an 11-year-old were awarded $75 million total in compensatory damages Friday, according to the Associated Press.
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, who each spent 31 years in jail for a crime they did not commit, were each awarded $1 million for every year spent in prison. In addition to the $31 million each, the eight-person jury awarded them $13 million in punitive damages,
More than three decades after they were convicted of the rape and death of Sabrina Buie in 1983, new DNA evidence showed another man was responsible.
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cases like this is the reason I dont believe government should be allowed to execute people. I am not saying that murders dont deserve to be executed becouse they do deserve it.
I am saying I dont believe the state has the ability to bring justice to the right people all the time. I dont have a answer that is good in dealing with individuals convicted of murder. At this point warehouse them till they die is the only thing I think we should allow government to do.
And then if you hear both sides what are you going to do? Harrumph! Or keep quiet and go to the next story? I just celebrated our 51st Anniversary. If you fraudulently took 31 of those years away from me (and probably the rest of our lives because we agreed long ago to move on) at least don't give me cliches and no follow up with "both sides". That's a cope out.
Would you give up your last 30+ years of your freedom for $37 million?
As for who pays, it was the People of North Carolina who convicted them.
“Cases like this is the reason I dont believe government should be allowed to execute people.”
I’d be with you if “Life without possibility of Parole actually meant it”. Too many lives lost or ruined due to Leftist judges carrying out their agenda.
“new DNA evidence showed another man was responsible. “
Funny how that works...
My bad, I didn’t realize that DNA holds political bias.
There are many prison inmates that are innocent of the specific crime that they are convicted of, but 90% should have been convicted of 20-40 other crimes that were never adjudicated.
Agreed.
Well, that doesn’t make false incarceration right.
It seems that it would be impossible to prove something happened when it actually and absolutely did not happen.
What this tells me is our legal system is garbage and it often produces garbage results. I happen to know this anyway from first hand observation of it coming to the absolutely wrong conclusions in various cases.
Our legal system is crap. It needs reform. It should not be possible to prove someone did something when they did not actually do something.
Funny how that works...
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Yep...... Every day new things evolve
or we’d be stuck in time lapse.
There would also be fewer of these if juries took the guilty beyond a reasonable doubt standard seriously.
Bleedings hearts giving away outher people's money. Go join BLM and antifa you bunch of liberals.
“If it was me, I would purchase a house on a beach in a non-extraditable country....”
that’s as close to “justice” being found in this and similar situations.
You are so right.
Sadly, that’s probably how much of it they will see.
We haven’t had a “justice system” for 40 or 50 years.
We have a very badly-broken “legal system”.
You're either playing dumb or being dumb. DNA does nothing on its own. Convictions get overturned because people who want them overturned convince others to go along. It is the people who have political agendas.
Hate to say it but they will both be broke in less than six months.
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