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The jury also awarded McCollum and Brown $13 million in punitive damages. According to The Washington Post, the combined $75 million payout is the highest in U.S. history in a wrongful conviction case and is the largest personal injury award in North Carolina. McCollum and Brown, who have IQs in the 50’s, were both teenagers when law enforcement officers allegedly coerced them into confessing to a crime that they did not fully understand. McCollum was sentenced to death, while Brown was sentenced to life in prison. In 2014, the brothers were released from prison after the DNA of murderer ...

Two Black brothers were awarded $75 million after false rape, murder convictions led to more than 30 years in prison INSIDER 8 hrs ago esnodgrass@businessinsider.com (Erin Snodgrass) © AP Photo/Michael Biesecker, File In this Sept. 3, 2014 file photo, Henry McCollum walks out of prison after being released from Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. AP Photo/Michael Biesecker, File A jury awarded two brothers $75 million after they spent nearly 31 years wrongfully imprisoned. The two were released in 2014 after new DNA evidence linked a convicted murderer to the crime. The pay...

No release for ex-officer guilty in 'Fatal Vision' murders GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press April 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this March 1, 1995 file photo Jeffrey MacDonald gestures at the federal correctional institution in Sheridan, Ore. A federal judge refused on Friday, April 9, 2021 to release an ex-Army captain imprisoned for decades for the murders of his wife and two young daughters, deciding he lacked authority to consider Jeffrey MacDonald’s request.Shane Young/AP RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday refused to release an ex-Army captain imprisoned for ...