* A jury decided Mr Henry McCollum and Mr Leon Brown should received $31 million each in compensatory damages, $1 million for every year spent in prison.


* The jury also awarded them $13 million in punitive damages.

Two half brothers wrongfully sent to death row have been awarded $75 million in damages after spending decades behind bars for the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.

1976 school photo of Henry McCollum.

Attorneys for the men have said they were scared teenagers who had low IQs when they were questioned by police and coerced into confessing.

McCollum was then 19, and Brown was 15. Both were convicted and sentenced to death.

In a June 10, 1987 photo, Leon Brown sits in the day room of his Death Row cell block in Raleigh, NC's Central Prison.

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Raleigh attorney Elliot Abrams said: 'The first jury to hear all of the evidence including the wrongly suppressed evidence found Henry and Leon to be innocent, found them to have been demonstrably and excruciatingly wronged, and has done what the law can do to make it right at this late date.'

Brothers McCollum and Brown have pursued the civil case against law enforcement members since 2015, arguing that their civil rights were violated during the interrogations that led to their convictions.

The two were released from prison in 2014 after DNA evidence that pointed to a convicted murderer exonerated them.


Sabrina Buie, pictured.

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Mr Henry McCollum holds a framed copy of his pardon before a hearing on compensation by the state for his wrongful conviction on Sept. 2, 2015 in Raleigh, N.C. McCollum was the state's longest serving death row inmate when he was released in 2014 after three decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted in a girl's death.


In this 2014 file photo, Leon Brown speaks with a reporter at the Maury Correctional Institution in Maury, N.C., about his incarceration.

Lawyers representing two former North Carolina sheriff's deputies agreed on Friday, May 14, 2021, to a $9 million settlement with Brown and his half brother Henry McCollum, who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 killing of an 11-year-old girl.

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Some one will just go to prison, because of nothing it is na wa, well am not suprise we have many case in Nigeria like that

Geraldine Brown, sister of Leon Brown, celebrates outside a Robeson County courtroom where her brothers were declared innocent of the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl in 1983, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014 in Lumberton, N.C

Damn. Some will pray for that kinda monetary settlement but not the hardship involved.

Hmmm

As painful as suffering for the offence you did not commit.

May God heal their broken heart.

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We have people like this in Nigerian prisons but it a pity theirs is naija

They added weight while in prison..

If it's Nigeria their case files would have been misplaced let alone discovering any discrepancy in their cases.

highlands:
We have people like this in Nigerian prisons but it a pity theirs is naija

Quite a lot are helped in their cases. Only issue we have here is most lawyers do not want to do pro bono work.

Ok

well, I don't know how i feel about this . if its me I guess I will be happy and sad... they took a lot from them no amount can buy back what they have lost but the compensation is very mouth watery

At the peak of racism in the U.S

stanley000:
Omo that second guy has been severely raped in prison, e show for him face

You must be a rapist to know this.


You need reform!

decatalyst:


You must be a rapist to know this.


You need reform!

these indomie kids again sha

Chloraseptic:
They added weight while in prison..

If it's Nigeria their case files would have been misplaced let alone discovering any discrepancy in their cases.

Yes they added weight while their anus was been drilled by bobriskinanos in prison. They will never be sane again, even with that money

BTW, thanks explorer for making some guys in 9ja wish it happened to them just becoz of that compensation

These ones are millionaires already o, and still gat age to enjoy am.

Win-Win for them

The prison is still packed with innocent black boys
The black boys still thrive
Really happy for the duo

Chai

God keep me away from the eyes of woman hand protect me and my guys from dis sight please lord, this Rape case issue is so bad, why is it so

this is a serious matter

airminem:
At the peak of racism in the U.S

read! The said victim is a black girl

HOLLY GRAM . REAL HOLLY GRAM

Nowadays is usually through DNA

tellwisdom:
How then were they able to confirm this judgement if they couldn’t, years ago??

This is so heart breaking

As much as I'm happy for them.... Let's just know that no money will be sufficient enough to compensate them for the wasted THIRTY ONE YEARS !!!