Man spends 30 years in prison for something he didn't do

[z28]

What a bunch of crap. Wasted life for nothing.

[GAbulldawg]

According to a news article on www.georgehigh.com Texas has passed a law that raises the payment to people wrongly convicted up from 50K to 80K for every year they were wrongly incarcerated. On top of that they are set up to be paid an annual annuity of 80k for life!
While I agree that those who have been falsely imprisoned should receive some sort of aid package, to include a monetary amount equal to what they would have earned (unemployed at time of incarceration would receive payment package equal to a minumum wage job @40 hrs/week), had they not been confined.
My problem with this is the annual annuity. What if a 18 year old is convicted of murder, spends five years in prison and then is found innocent by new evidence. This person, according to the new law, would be entitled to a lump sum payment of $400,000 and then will be paid $80,000 FOR LIFE! AT 23!
If this law stands I predict a new type of scam wherein a person sets him/herself up to take the fall for a crime, does a couple of years in prison and then evidence that exonerates that person is MYSTERIOSLY produced.
BAM! Set up for life courteous of the State of Texas. Sounds far-fetched but, according to the law, this is feasible. :confused:

[frankthetank]

knowing texas they will prolly have them murdered before they get out or very soon there after. I heard a lot of bad stories about texas police