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Maryland Panel Approves $2.9 Million Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted Man Who Spent 32 Years Behind Bars

ANNAPOLIS, Md.—A Maryland board approved $2.9 million in compensation Wednesday for a man who was wrongly imprisoned for 32 years, including a decade on death row, for two murders he ...

July 6, 2023BY The Associated Press
Innocent Chinese Man Tortured to Force Confession Is Cleared After 26 Years in Prison

A Chinese man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 26 years for the murder of two children was finally ...

August 12, 2020BY Mary Hong
A Wrongfully Convicted Man Gains His Freedom

Calvin Duncan was 19 years old and had moved from New Orleans to Mt. Hood, Oregon in 1982 ...

June 18, 2019BY Andrew Thomas
A Man Who Spent Nearly 46 Years in Prison for a Wrongful Conviction Will Get $1.5 Million

A man who spent nearly 46 years in prison for a wrongful conviction will get $1.5 million

May 22, 2019BY Wire Service