Donations pour in for Missouri man freed after 43 years

More than $1.4 million had been raised as of Saturday for a person who spent 43 years behind bars earlier than a decide overturned his conviction in a triple killing.
The Midwest Innocence Project arrange the GoFundMe fundraiser as they fought for Kevin Strickland’s launch, noting that he wouldn’t obtain compensation from Missouri and would want assist paying for fundamental residing bills. The state solely permits wrongful imprisonment funds to individuals who had been exonerated by means of DNA proof, so the 62-year-old Strickland wouldn’t qualify.
Judge James Welsh, a retired Missouri Court of Appeals decide, ordered his launch on Tuesday, discovering that proof used to convict Strickland had since been recanted or disproven. By Saturday night, greater than $1.45 million had been donated to assist Strickland.
Strickland has all the time maintained that he was dwelling watching tv and had nothing to do with the killings, which occurred in 1978 when he was 18 years outdated.
As he left jail, he mentioned he was “thankful for God walking me through this for 43 years.”