Photo American who served in prison for 39 years by mistake, will receive 21 million dollars in compensationPhoto: CBS News

Craig Cowley was imprisoned in 1978 on charges of double murder

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In the United States will pay compensation in the amount of USD 21 million 70-year-old Craig Cowley, who spent 39 years in prison for the double murder did not commit. Reported by ABC News.

In 1978 an unknown ball killed ex-girlfriend Rhonda CGIL and her 4-year-old son. Cowley then found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

All the while, he insisted on his innocence of the crime. In 1989, one of the police detectives reopened the case of a double murder and found a lot of inaccuracies, including the lack of DNA Cowley on evidence and the presence of DNA of other people. Also managed to disprove the statement of a key witness, who allegedly saw Cowley at the scene.

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In 2017 Cowley was released and began to seek compensation for the unjust punishment.

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Immediately after the pardon the Governor Jerry brown agreed to pay him two million dollars compensation.

Now the state of California and Cowley reached an out of court agreement on compensation in the amount of USD 21 million.

As previously reported by the Focus:

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  • In January on death row in a prison in Nevada committed suicide by a drug dealer Scott Dozier, who in 2007 was sentenced to death.