This world is a cruel place. What if he had been sent to deathrow?
28 years behind bars then your life is only worth $6,250.00 per year of ALL that time taken away or rather robbed away from you?
[SIZE=7]$6,250: What an inmate cleared of murder after nearly 3 decades could get per year behind bars[/SIZE]
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[li]By[/li][li]MEGHAN KENEALLY[/li][/ul]
Jul 22, 2019, 4:05 PM ET
An Oklahoma judge last week exonerated a man who had spent 28 years behind bars, in the nation’s latest high-profile case of wrongful conviction.
But according to state law, the maximum amount he could get for each year that he was incarcerated is $6,250.
That’s because Oklahoma has a cap of $175,000 that can be awarded to those who are wrongfully convicted then exonerated.
Jeff Gutman, a professor of clinical law at the George Washington University Law School who’s studied exoneration compensation, said that when asked to grade the various state compensation packages, he would give Oklahoma a D+ because “a state that has an overall cap like Oklahoma really prejudices people who are in longer, the longer-serving exonerees.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/6250-inmate-cleared-murder-decades-year-bars/story?id=64484162