Exonerated Man Getting $55 a Day for Jail Time
From Times Wire Reports
In North Carolina, freedom is worth about $55 a day.
Under that formula, the state is paying Darryl Hunt about $360,000 for the 18 years he spent in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
Hunt, 39, of Winston-Salem, was officially exonerated in February of the 1984 murder of newspaper copy editor Deborah Sykes, who was stabbed to death on her way to work. He was granted a pardon in April by Gov. Mike Easley.
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