Especially in a American prision. Who even paus that? Is that tax payer money? If yes. This is beyond hilarious.

Nothing can give time back and make this right. That being said, 22 million on top of 3 million from another case, I feel is a pretty reasonable settlement. He can live his remaining years in luxury at least. Not sure real justice can be found for so many years of someone's life wrongfully taken from them.

I'm close in age to you, and it's gut-wrenching to come to this realization. A large part of his 'guilt' was likely due to his skin tone. Absolutely sickening

Maybe if a defendant has been proven to commit multiple rapes on top of murder.

Honestly, I don't think increasing the amount would make a difference. He won't be able to buy back the years of life they took from him with it. He can use that 25M to spend the years he has left living as rich of a life as he wants, and by all means he deserves it.

So, I get where you're coming from here, but $25 million is still an enormous amount of money objectively. Obviously there isn't really a way to convert 44 years of incarceration into an equivalent financial denomination, but if we think about earnings that could be had in that time, $25 million by far covers it.

If this guy were to have a job paying $100k a year for his whole life, he'd be making well in excess of the average, and still only have about $6 million total earnings by the time they retire. Let's double it and assume he was making $200k a year for his entire working life, that's still only half the amount he was awarded. So this amount paid could be said to cover a lifetime of high pay, plus an equivalent amount in damages, plus a little extra on top for good measure.

Bruh. Quoted from the article:

"They said that the prosecution’s main piece of evidence was the victim’s identification of Long weeks after the attack and that it was "the product of a suggestive identification procedure arranged by the police to target Long."

There were also numerous pieces of evidence from the scene, including suspect hair and 43 fingerprints, that could have helped exonerate him, according to his attorneys. The material, which they said did not belong to Long, was tested by investigators but not disclosed. The attorneys also accused Concord police officers of giving false testimony about the evidence at Long's trial."

It sounds like she was led by the police, and all evidence pointing to the contrary was tossed out.

That really should depend.

It's fucked, but there needs to be malicious intent behind it. If she was actually raped, and really did believe thus guy did it, then no, we shouldn't be sending actual rape victims to prison.

There's a difference between a false ID you believe to be true and a false ID given maliciously.

It's not so simple. There's known cases where rape survivors are gaslit by cops into identifying the wrong person as the rapist.

They'll confiscate the remaining 20.3 million...

Not punishment but laking you work for nothing. That is slavery.

Yeah he got fucked out of his life, there is virtually no amount of money that can fix this (trillions perhaps so you can at least play king of the world for a few years before you die).

Except you get a pretty shitty work-life balance during your whole career. You know many careers that give you 0 hours of life over 44 years?