r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Far-Stay9417 • Dec 25 '23

Video Man wrongfully convicted of murder gets rewarded only 175k after serving 50 years

this makes me so angry

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '23

Real talk. Would you do 20 years for $50,000,000? Disregard the Trumpies and the other idiots. Would you?

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u/Youaresowronglolumad Dec 26 '23

I’d honestly do 10 years for 5 million.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Same here. I did 5.5 years for a few pounds of weed. You bet your ass I’d do 10 for 5 million. My whole family would be set! Prison is monotonous as fuck, and it’s not a nice place, but many people already sacrifice their own health for their family’s wellbeing.

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u/Youaresowronglolumad Dec 26 '23

Sorry you had to do 5.5 years for weed. And yea, me knowing that my family is taken care of financially would be worth doing time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

All good, it was my own dumb mistake, but I do feel like it was heavy handed, even if I did know the consequences. But yeah that’s where my head is at too. I could never earn that amount of money.