originally posted here.

A judge on Monday freed a man who had been found guilty of raping and murdering a teenage girl in the 1980s. The man had confessed but recent DNA tests showed he couldn't have been the killer. Upon hearing his conviction was overturned after 17 years in prison, Eddie Joe Lloyd thrust his arms forward and gave an emphatic "Thank you."
There are quite a few bugs in the justice system. This being one of them.. but when cases like these occur, how are we supposed to repay these people? Surely the state dosen't expect a simple appology to justify their mistake(s). You can't just take 17 years of some one's life and expect an appology to make it up. Unless that's your twisted idea of "justice"... This isn't the first case where something similar like this has happened. There's been hundreds of people who have spend 17-60+ years in jail for a crime that they didn't commit. What do you think 17 years of your life is worth?.. Could you even put a price on it?..