Sentenced to 400 years for a crime he didn’t commit, Sidney Holmes lost 34 years of his life behind bars to a wrongful conviction. Now, he’ll receive $1.7M in compensation — but no amount can repay stolen time. Now, he's using that unimaginable pain to advocate for others. Keep... going, Brother.show more

Not even close to enough!

1.7mil?!

Lamar Johnson, innocent, lost 28 years in prison

This is why some people’s lust for the death penalty is unseemly. Government is not foolproof, and courts make mistakes. Sometimes the criminals you love to hate aren’t actually guilty. It’s better to err on the side of caution and take reasonable doubt into consideration.

So they figured… let’s give him $34,000ish a year for each year he lost as a way of saying “my bad”?

So sad.

@queenie4rmnola He deserves 10 times that

1.7M only. Who is his lawyer? This is how his life is valued.

@queenie4rmnola So glad for this brother.

Only 1.7M