Via the Washington Post By Editorial BoardSeptember 8, 2019, at 7:33 p.m. EDT
WHAT IS a year of your life worth? What amount of money can compensate for the loss of time with your family? What makes up for not being able to hold your wife’s hand, or kiss your son good night, or be there when your mother is dying? These hard and perhaps unanswerable questions lie at the heart of the dilemma confronting Maryland as it tries to sort out how to compensate people who were wrongly convicted and unjustly imprisoned.