An innocent man released after 30 years in prison in one of North Carolina’s longest-serving death row cases.The inmate was freed from prison Wednesday, a day after a judge overturned his conviction because of new DNA evidence in the case.

Henry McCollum, 50, walked out of Central Prison in Raleigh, hugged his mother and father and thanked God for his release.

His half brother, 46-year-old Leon Brown, also had his conviction in a 1983 rape and murder overturned on Tuesday. Brown was expected to be freed later Wednesday.

McCollum spoke briefly to reporters before getting into the passenger seat of his father’s car, where a reporter had to show him how to buckle the seat belt. He had never used a seat belt of that design.

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