US man given $4.1m payout for wrongful conviction admits to murder over $1,200

Shaurn Thomas, whose 1990 murder conviction was thrown out, pleads guilty to killing man over drug debt in 2023

After spending 24 years in prison on an overturned murder conviction, Shaurn Thomas received a $4.1m payout from the city of Philadelphia - and became a standard-bearer for the Pennsylvania Innocence Project.

Now, seven years after his release, Thomas has admitted to killing a different man in early 2023 over a comparatively paltry $1,200 drug debt. And as a result, Thomas will probably go back to a cell for the rest of his life.