There's Hope For Me Yet - A North Carolina Man Had His Case Overturned And Was Freed From Prison After 31 Years on Death Row

 
AP – One of North Carolina’s longest-serving death row inmates has been freed from prison, a day after a judge overturned his conviction because of new DNA evidence in the case. Fifty-year-old Henry McCollum walked out of Central Prison in Raleigh on Wednesday. He hugged his mother and thanked God for his release. His half brother, 46-year-old Leon Brown, also had his conviction in a 1983 rape and murder overturned on Tuesday. Brown was expected to be freed later Wednesday. McCollum spoke briefly to reporters before getting into the passenger seat of his father’s car, where a reporter had to show him how to buckle the seat belt. He had never used a seat belt of that design.

I feel your pain brother. I know what you went through. And I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. Me and this guy Henry McCollum are basically the same person. I’m in day 2 in Twitter jail, and things are looking bleak. They won’t return my emails, I have less followers on my new Twitter than that egg Travis from SBnation, meaning funny tweets go basically unnoticed. My pageviews are dropping because there’s nobody there to RT my hilarious blogs, and live tweeting is basically pointless. It’s a hard knock life in Twitter jail. And Henry McCollum knows this. He is 100% for sure right now getting on board the #FreeNate campaign. Because it would crush him to see anyone have to live the same fate he lived for 30 years. What happens if when I come out of Twitter jail and there are new features that I don’t even know about, exactly like how he didn’t know how to use a seatbelt? I would probably cry. The whole world is out there moving and shucking and jiving, and I’m sitting in jail scribbling on the walls, hoping a Twitter lawyer hears my story, checks the internet DNA, and overturns my case. But much like McCollum, I’ll be a hero. I’ll take the fall. Because that’s what heroes like him and I do. Eventually I believe I’ll get out and return to the ship. But for now, I’ll keep fighting the good fight from jail, much like a modern day Nelson Mandela.