A 60-year-old man, Lawrence McKinney, who was wrongfully handed a 115-year imprisonment after he was convicted of rape and burglary in 1978 has been released and handed a N23,000 compensation.
However, DNA evidence examined in 2009 eventually ruled him out as a suspect – meaning that, after spending most of his life behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, he was a free man.
He was finally given a compensation of just about £60.
However, he is currently seeking $1 million compensation and his case may be looked into by a parole board.
The man who hails from Memphis in Tennessee was quoted by the CBS News as saying: “I don’t have no life. All of my life was taken away.
“I don’t have no life, all my life was taken away.”
His lawyer, Jack Lowery, also argues that he deserves to be compensated for being denied freedom for most of his life.
“It is not justice for him not to receive compensation for being wrongfully imprisoned,” Lowery said.
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