Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were intellectually disabled teenagers when they were taken from their home in rural Robeson County, coerced into confessing to a brutal murder they didn’t commit, and sentenced to death. The brothers spent 31 years in prison before DNA testing finally proved them innocent. By the time of their release in 2014, Henry was North Carolina’s longest serving death row prisoner. Join us as we explore the wrongful conviction of these two brothers.
- cnn.com/2021/05/18/us/north-carolina-wrongful-conviction-compensation/index.html
- http://www.cdpl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/SAVED-FROM-EXECUTION-web-final1.pdf
- https://goodblacknews.org/tag/sabrina-buie/
- https://www.fayobserver.com/article/20140904/news/309049641