61-Year Old Man Gets $75 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned For More Than 30 Years
61-Year Old Man Gets $75 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned For More Than 30 Years
Nationwide — Lawrence McKinney from Memphis, Tennessee served 31 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, and so far he has only received $75. At the young age of 21, he was convicted on rape and burglary charges in 1978 and sentenced to 115 years in jail, but was released in 2009 when DNA evidence cleared of the charges.
Now he is 61 years old, and couldn’t initially even cash the $75 check that was given to him by the Tennessee Department of Corrections because he didn’t have an ID. He told CNN, “Because I had no ID it took me three months before I was able to cash it.”
But now, McKinney is asking Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to exonerate him. He is also currently petitioning the state of Tennessee to compensate him with $1 million for the years of his life that were unjustly spent in prison. However, things are not going so well with the exoneration request sor petition.
His first exoneration request in 2010 to then Governor Phil Bredesen was never denied or approved before he left office. Even worse, The Tennessee Board of Parole, which makes recommendations to the governor, recently denied his request by a 7-0 vote at a hearing back in September 2016.
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Nationwide — Lawrence McKinney from Memphis, Tennessee served 31 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, and so far he has only received $75. At the young age of 21, he was convicted on rape and burglary charges in 1978 and sentenced to 115 years in jail, but was released in 2009 when DNA evidence cleared of the charges.
Now he is 61 years old, and couldn’t initially even cash the $75 check that was given to him by the Tennessee Department of Corrections because he didn’t have an ID. He told CNN, “Because I had no ID it took me three months before I was able to cash it.”
But now, McKinney is asking Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to exonerate him. He is also currently petitioning the state of Tennessee to compensate him with $1 million for the years of his life that were unjustly spent in prison. However, things are not going so well with the exoneration request sor petition.
His first exoneration request in 2010 to then Governor Phil Bredesen was never denied or approved before he left office. Even worse, The Tennessee Board of Parole, which makes recommendations to the governor, recently denied his request by a 7-0 vote at a hearing back in September 2016.
READ MORE: http://www.blacknews.com/news/lawrence-mck...
Do you think that The State of Tennessee should compensate Lawrence McKinney who served 31 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit?