ANNAPOLIS, Md.—A Maryland board approved $2.9 million in compensation Wednesday for a man who was wrongly imprisoned for 32 years, including a decade on death row, for two murders he did not commit.
John Huffington was pardoned by former Gov. Larry Hogan in January. The former governor cited prosecutorial misconduct in granting a full innocence pardon for Mr. Huffington in connection with a 1981 double slaying in Harford County.
On Wednesday, the Board of Public Works—comprised of Gov. Wes Moore, Comptroller Brooke Lierman and Treasurer Dereck Davis—approved the compensation package.
“He was robbed of time being spent away from family and loved ones, holidays, birthdays, missed milestones, opportunities denied—injustice, time and time again,” Mr. Moore said in apologizing to Mr. Huffington, who attended the board meeting….