37 min
Henry McCollum & Leon Brown Unjustly
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- True Crime
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were intellectually disabled teenagers when they were taken from their home in rural Robeson County, coerced into confessing to a brutal murder they didn’t commit, and sentenced to death. The brothers spent 31 years in prison before DNA testing finally proved them innocent. By the time of their release in 2014, Henry was North Carolina’s longest serving death row prisoner. Join us as we explore the wrongful conviction of these two brothers.
Sources:
cnn.com/2021/05/18/us/north-carolina-wrongful-conviction-compensation/index.html
http://www.cdpl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/SAVED-FROM-EXECUTION-web-final1.pdf
https://goodblacknews.org/tag/sabrina-buie/
https://www.fayobserver.com/article/20140904/news/309049641
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were intellectually disabled teenagers when they were taken from their home in rural Robeson County, coerced into confessing to a brutal murder they didn’t commit, and sentenced to death. The brothers spent 31 years in prison before DNA testing finally proved them innocent. By the time of their release in 2014, Henry was North Carolina’s longest serving death row prisoner. Join us as we explore the wrongful conviction of these two brothers.
Sources:
cnn.com/2021/05/18/us/north-carolina-wrongful-conviction-compensation/index.html
http://www.cdpl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/SAVED-FROM-EXECUTION-web-final1.pdf
https://goodblacknews.org/tag/sabrina-buie/
https://www.fayobserver.com/article/20140904/news/309049641
37 min