WHAT??? Am I reading this right? They were awarded $75 million but each of them is only going to go home with $750,000 of it? That's no where close to being as bad as the original crime, but it's pretty bad! Who gets the rest of it? The lawyers?... Can't be.
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, the News & Observer reports.