50 years in jail, sentenced to death - unsafe conviction.

[motorbiking]

Poor chap now has cancer..

Man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder he didn't commit is exonerated by judge

Glynn Simmons, 71, is eligible for $175,000 compensation after spending nearly half a century behind bars due to a wrongful conviction.

news.sky.com

$175k compensation and at least he can sue the police. Hopefully he will survive long enough to collect $$

 

[blup]

Read that, he has a remarkably positive attitude

 

[Bod ...]

I read this. I hope he gets more to really live the high life. Unfortunately I think he has Liver cancer.

Good luck to him and hope he has a long life.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Should be $175k (and not 'up to' but the full amount) for each and every month he was wrongly imprisoned.

p.s. here's a good example of why I don't agree with the death sentence.

p.p.s. I've no intention of getting into protracted debates about the rights/wrongs of the death sentence.

 

[securespark]

I've no intention of getting into protracted debates about the rights/wrongs of the death sentence.

Oh yes you have!

Well, it IS panto season after all....

 

[Trazor]

From the link....

"Though she opposed declaring him actually innocent."

Hmmmm.

 

[noseall]

From the link....

"Though she opposed declaring him actually innocent."

Hmmmm.

'She'? You mean the DA. Always a very bad look for the prosecution side, when things like this go badly wrong. Especially when there are voters out there seeing an expensive law suit coming up. The judge however...."Oklahoma County District Judge Amy Palumbo ruled him innocent" .
Good enough.