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DNA evidence exonerates two half-brothers convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl
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Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Died From Lethal Injection, Not Heart Attack
Updated: Sept. 2, 6:30 p.m.
Two half-brothers who were convicted in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old North Carolina girl were ordered free Tuesday, after a judge ruled that they had been wrongly imprisoned thanks to newly discovered DNA evidence.
North Carolina Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser overturned the convictions of death-row inmate Henry Lee McCollum, 50, and Leon Brown, 46, who had been serving a life sentence. Both men originally confessed to the rape and murder of Sabrina Buie, who was found dead in a soybean field in rural North Carolina.
Both brothers have double-digit IQs and signed confessions after police told them they could go home afterwards.
The real killer lived a mile from where Sabrina was murdered and committed an identical crime a few weeks later.
Judge Frees North Carolina Inmates Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
DNA evidence exonerates two half-brothers convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl
MORE
Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Died From Lethal Injection, Not Heart Attack
Updated: Sept. 2, 6:30 p.m.
Two half-brothers who were convicted in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old North Carolina girl were ordered free Tuesday, after a judge ruled that they had been wrongly imprisoned thanks to newly discovered DNA evidence.
North Carolina Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser overturned the convictions of death-row inmate Henry Lee McCollum, 50, and Leon Brown, 46, who had been serving a life sentence. Both men originally confessed to the rape and murder of Sabrina Buie, who was found dead in a soybean field in rural North Carolina.
Both brothers have double-digit IQs and signed confessions after police told them they could go home afterwards.
The real killer lived a mile from where Sabrina was murdered and committed an identical crime a few weeks later.
Judge Frees North Carolina Inmates Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
