This is so touching and painful. I can only imagine how many people are locked up in prisons in Nigeria wrongfully. This man pictured above is an Ohio man who was freed
last year after 39 years and now he has been told he'll be getting a $1M dollar compensation from the
Government for his wrongful imprisonment.
“I don’t even know what to say. This is going to
mean so much,” he said upon learning of the pay from a journalist."
Mr Jackson, 58, was one of three who were put on
death row in 1975 after being convicted of aggravated murder in the slaying of
a businessman outside a store in Cleveland. He was imprisoned for 39 years.
Prosecutors at the time relied on the testimony
of a 13-year-old boy to give the guilty verdict against Jackson and his
friends, Wiley Bridgeman and Ronnie Bridgeman, who also happen to be brothers.
The boy only came out a few years later, saying
he was not even present at the scene of the crime, thereby leaving no evidence
tying him to the murder.
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lucky him
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