US death-row inmates awarded $75m damages

Updated May 16 2021 - 10:09pm, first published 10:05pm
Henry McCollum, pictured on his release in 2014, spent most of his 31 years in prison on death row.
Henry McCollum, pictured on his release in 2014, spent most of his 31 years in prison on death row.

A jury in North Carolina has awarded $US75 million ($A96 million) to two half-brothers who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.

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