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Hidden Costs: Liability Judgments for Wrongful Capital Prosecutions Cost Taxpayers in Death-Penalty States Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

Studies have consistently found that a system of criminal law in which the death penalty is available as a punishment is far more expensive than a system in which the most severe punishment is life without parole or a long prison term. Now, as the number of murder exonerations mounts across the United States, a previously hidden cost is emerging: the cost of liability for police and prosecutorial misconduct associated with the wrongful use or threatened use of the death penalty. The innocence movement has shown that, in addition to the increased costs associated with investigation, pretrial detention, prosecution, jury selection, trial and sentencing, appeal, and incarceration in death-penalty cases, wrongful capital prosecutions are costing state and local taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Two factors drive up the costs of wrongful conviction judgments: official misconduct and length and severity of incarceration.

North Carolina's history | Los Angeles Sentinel

Falsely Accused Brothers Awarded $75M After 30 Years in Prison - Los Angeles Sentinel

1983 rape and murder

Hogan Lovells Helps Falsely Sentenced Men Win $75M

Hogan Lovells Helps Falsely Sentenced Men Win $75M By Sameer Rao | June 6, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT Leon Brown, left, greets his half-brother Henry McCollum, in the blue shirt, soon after a judge exonerated them in 2014 for the 1983 rape and murder of 11-year-old Sabrina Buie in Red Springs, North Carolina. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) On May 14, after decades of incarceration for violent crimes they did not commit, half-brothers Henry McCollum and Leon Brown received some welcome news: An eight-member jury in Raleigh, North Carolina's federal district court had awarded them $75 million. granted both men $1 million in compensatory damages for each of their 31 years behind bars. It also ordered punitive damages worth $13 million from the two former State Bureau of Investigation agents that the jury found violated the men's civil rights during the 1983 interrogations that led to the half-brothers being convicted of raping and murdering 11-year-old Sabrina Buie in the town of Red Springs.

Exonerated men awarded $75 million for wrongful convictions   – North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Reform at last? $75 million verdict should send message to prosecutors, lawmakers

$75 million verdict for Henry McCollum and Leon Brown should send message to prosecutors, lawmakers to heed demands for reform

Gerda Stein, Author at The Progressive Pulse

New Hearings on Reopened Death Penalty Cases Began Last Week. The Outcomes Could Effectively End North Carolina's Death Penalty.

The first hearing in a series of death penalty cases ordered reopened by a landmark state Supreme Court ruling began last week in a Wake County courtroom.

Florida attorney suspended five years in N.C. – North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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