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DNA Exonerates Man Who Served Nearly 40 Years For Murder
Joseph Sledge is a free man after 37 years in prison following Friday's decision by a judicial panel in North Carolina to overturn his 1976 conviction in the stabbing deaths of an elderly mother and her daughter. The Associated Press says DNA evidence had helped to exonerate Sledge, now 70, whose case was referred last month to the three-judge panel by the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission.
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70 and more than half his life in spent in prison for nothing. What a shame.
Imagine if he'd have been given the death penalty instead
They would have been apologizing to him posthumously, like China did a few months back. Then again, the US kills a significant amount of innocent inmates.
I didn't quite realise how many there were
Miscarriages of Justice - Death Penalty
Yeah and these are just the ones that were proved innocent after the fact, imagine the % of that and the actual % of innocent inmates killed. Some will never have their names cleared, not ever and that is the saddest part.
I just watched the RL video if this man's interview after release. One of the reporters asked him...
With his reply
That always gets me, we take all of these little things for granted...
There's no compensation high enough.