Anthony Graves Story on "48 Hours" Saturday
The CBS news show 48 Hours Mystery will air a segment this Saturday with an update on former death row inmate Anthony Graves' story.
Graves was exonerated in 2010 after spending 18 years in prison, most of them on death row. He was wrongfully convicted in 1994 of six counts of capital murder and spent the better part of two decades fighting to prove his innocence. The state paid him $1.45 million last year for the time he was imprisoned, but getting the money he was owed required Graves to take on another fight with the state.
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Comments (2)
Phil Chilton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
How is a price set for your life? Can any amount buy a minute? A second? Its just guilt money.
Carol Goodwin
Whomever was governor over all these years and who prevented him from being released earlier along with the original prosecution team, should all search their own souls for how much money will have to paid out because of their pompous arrogance in far too many cases. I have served on juries
where we were instructed that we absolutely could not convict unless we did so without a shadow of doubt! How can all these men have been tried in such a manner when they were evifently innocent?