Two Men Pardoned for 1983 Killing

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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:42AM EDT / Published Jun. 06, 2015 3:57PM EDT

After being wrongfully imprisoned for three decades for the killing of an 11-year-old girl, two half brothers in North Carolina will receive over $1 million in compensation. Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown were coerced into confessing the 1983 crime when they were respectively 19 and 15 years of age. The two were exonerated based on DNA evidence in September that pegged the crime on another suspect. Their pardons, proposed by Governor Pat McCrory, qualify each man for $50,000 from the state for each year they were in jail with a limit of $750,000 each.

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Two Men Pardoned for 1983 Killing

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