• North Carolina will give $750,000 each to two wrongly convicted men who spent three decades in priso
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[QUOTE=Colour;48602345]You know what's better than nothing? Something.[/QUOTE] You know whats better than money? Not being wrongly convicted of a crime you never committed and losing 30 years of your life for it.
[QUOTE=Ltp0wer;48602754]Yeah, here's the law: [URL]http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/ByArticle/Chapter_148/Article_8.pdf[/URL] But how do we know when the applicable parts were passed/edited (genuinely asking, no idea how to date law. I see a date at the end that says 2010, but not sure what changed or how to look that up)? If those standards were set in 1997, then damn right getting half isn't enough. In March 2015, quite a lot of members of the NC congress sponsored a [URL="http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=h398"]bill that would have DOUBLED[/URL] the limit. It passed the first reading but didn't get looked at again by the committee on appropriations so the bill basically died. Why didn't it get looked at, who knows, but if that had been passed, which it very well could have, then giving these men 50% would have been double. So I guess even some lawmakers in the state agree that they should have been paid more.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I'm all for raising the compensation, the point still stands though unfortunately. The state is doing everything well within it's power to compensate these people to the best of their ability. There will never be enough money to compensate some people which is why I hope that the state really examines why and how these cases happen. [QUOTE=BANNED USER;48603347]You know whats better than money? Not being wrongly convicted of a crime you never committed and losing 30 years of your life for it.[/QUOTE] Land of the free.
[QUOTE=Colour;48602345]You know what's better than nothing? Something.[/QUOTE] I wonder if you'd be saying this if they only compensated him with a subway sandwich. [editline]2nd September 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;48602774]Don't forget the money the state spent to imprison them. It costs about $20,000 a year, so really they're getting around $45,000 a year in total.[/QUOTE] They didn't exactly get that money/
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;48603492]I wonder if you'd be saying this if they only compensated him with a subway sandwich.[/quote] Whenever the US Courts start compensating in fast food then I think I'd prefer Quizno's.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;48603492]I wonder if you'd be saying this if they only compensated him with a subway sandwich. [editline]2nd September 2015[/editline] They didn't exactly get that money/[/QUOTE] Hey Subway is worth robbing someone at gunpoint over.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;48602809]For being in a horrible place for no reason. Still not enough.[/QUOTE] Using this logic is just pure fairy tale, yes it's horrible but there's probably a reason it's kept at a specific amount. You can't just make money appear from nowhere if the law is made to keep within overall budget restraints. I wouldn't last 5 years, 30 seems inhumane. But i get why there's a need for a limit through law, since it wouldn't work otherwise.
[QUOTE=stewsta;48602149]The irony here is that it's actually $250,000[/QUOTE] 3 [B]decades[/B], not 3 years
You guys take everything literally. I was mocking the state's horribly inadequate gesture by suggesting the cost of their wrongful imprisonment be counted as part of their compensation for that same imprisonment so the state looks more generous.
[QUOTE=Colour;48603490] Land of the free.[/QUOTE] As Americas hat you don't think your country has ever wrongfully convicted or imprisoned someone?
[QUOTE=stewsta;48602149]The irony here is that it's actually $250,000[/QUOTE] reverse irony? wat is this???
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