A Black North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping a prominent white woman has been awarded a historic $25 million settlement more than three years after he was exonerated. Ronnie Long,…
DNA evidence helps exonerate man 20 years in prison for murder (Independent)
The headline was disturbingly familiar: A person, usually male and often black, who has spent a substantial stretch of his life behind bars is freed after DNA evidence shows he is innocent. That was the case for Horace Roberts, 60,…