After 43 years in prison for murders he didn’t commit, man freed for wrongful conviction

A man who was in jail for 43 years for a triple murder he says he didn’t commit has been exonerated and released. Kevin Strickland, 62, from Missouri in the United States, was wrongly convicted of the crimes in 1978, and was found guilty on all charges the following year. He has pleaded innocence ever since he […]

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2 brothers awarded $75m for spending 31 years on death row for wrongful conviction of rape & murder (Photos)

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 […]

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46 years after, 82-year-old man compensated with $288,000 for wrongful conviction

82-year-old Vietnamese man, Tran Van Them was charged, convicted and sentenced to death in 1973 and 1974. He was only declared innocent in 2017. Them, a resident of Yen Phong District in Bac Ninh Province, one hour northeast of Hanoi, got the compensation for the years he spent in jail. He and his family originally […]

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