Ohio awards a million dollars to wrongly convicted man
(AGI) Washington, Mar 20 - A court in Ohio is to pay a57-year-old African American one million dollars incompensation for 39 years in jail for a murder he did notcommit. Ricky Jackson, released on Nov. 21, served thelongest-ever sentence by an innocent man. Testimony from a12-year-old boy, Eddie Vernon, pointed the finger at Jackson,who escaped the death penalty thanks to a legal error. He wassentenced, along with Wiley Bridgeman and his brother KwameAjamu, for the murder of Harold Franks in 1975. Vernon recantedmany years later and confessed that he had never