How much would you charge for a year of your life?

[shock]

"RALEIGH, North Carolina - In December 2003, Willard E. Brown confessed to the 1984 rape and stabbing death of Deborah Sykes after DNA testing linked him to the crime. His confession led to the release of Darryl Hunt (39) in April 2004. He was arrested as a 19 years old and had served about 18 years of a life sentence for a crime he always denied committing.
Darryl Hunt gets 360,000 $ in compensation for the 18 years of wrongful incarceration that he endured."

... which is 55 $ for each day he spent locked away in prison. How generous.

 

[Lazarus]

Not only....

Should also get a public apology, from the officers, judge, DA, etc, as well as the victim....

Not to mention ALOT more $$....

 

[shock]

Some facts:

2,1 billion people are currently imprisoned in the USA - every 140th person (that is 0.714 % of the total population). This is by far the highest rate in the world.

68 % of these prisoners are not white.
4,7 % of these prisoners are not male.

I wonder how many are not guilty.

 

[BigJim]

Personally I think it's the salaries and pension funds of the fuck-ups who wrongly landed him in prison that should pay for his compo. why the hell should the hard-working tax-payer have to fork out for it?

 

[milagros317]

To answer the question, I would charge $1,000,000.00 for a year of my life. I doubt anybody else would value it that high, though. 😛 😛

 

[Psycho]

I would be pissed. I mean 18 years of the guys life are just wasted.

Psycho

 

[BigJim]

Isn't it fortunate he wasn't subject to the death penalty. Average time on death row prior to execution is 12 years or so. This guy would've been dead for 6 already and he'd be number 24 on that list of mine.

 

[TKpervert]

Re: Some facts:

2,1 billion people are currently imprisoned in the USA - every 140th person (that is 0.714 % of the total population).

You meant 2.1 million, not billion, as 2.1 million works out to .7 percent of 300 million USA population. A simple typo...

But you're right, false imprisonment sucks, the stuff of nightmares.

I found his case on the net, but couldn't find any info on what led to his original conviction.