A U.S. man who was found innocent after serving 25 years in prison has received 10 million U.S. dollars on Wednesday as compensation.
The settlement set a record for the city of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, where Anthony Wright, who was 20-years-old when the alleged crime occurred, was sentenced to life without parole for a 1991 rape and murder case.


DNA evidence discovered later proved that Wright was innocent.
Innocence Project, an activist group promoting DNA evidence in criminal investigations, said in a statement that Wright was the victim of poor investigation procedures by the police, who allegedly threatened to beat Wright if he wouldn’t sign a confession written by the police.


The group said Wright now 44, is the 344th DNA exoneree in the nation.
It would be recalled that the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in 1991 indicted a 20-year-old black man named Anthony Wright on a charge of capital murder after describing the crime as “heinous.”
A 77-year-old woman had been robbed in her home, then raped and stabbed to death.

Wright maintained from the beginning that he signed the document only after interrogating officers threatened to “poke his eye out.”
He was later convicted after the jury deadlocked 7–5 in favor of a death sentence.
In Pennsylvania, death penalty verdicts must be unanimous and as such Wright was sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole.

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2nd to comment....i am progressing o.

He was just given his pension for 25yrs in active service in the prison.... Maybe if he was working over the last 25yrs he would not have made that much...10million dollars nor be beans o.....

I knew it is not Nigeria, not even anywhere near West Africa. Thank God you people have good reformed or correction center, otherwise known as prison ,if is my 9ja your brain might have completely reset below factory default, the compensation may never get to you that's if at all you get it......US A is a civilised state indeed.

Wow, God is great

Please don't crave this kind of mistake in Nigeria oo

just imagine if the man na Igbo man....$25M