U.S. man gets $10m for serving wrongly 25 years imprisonment

A U.S. man who has been found innocent after serving 25 years in prison was given 10 million U.S. dollars Wednesday as compensation.

The settlement set a record for the city of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, where Anthony Wright was sentenced to life without parole for a 1991 rape and murder case.

DNA evidence discovered later proved that Wright was innocent.

Innocence Project, an activist group promoting DNA evidence in criminal investigations, said in a statement that Wright was the victim of poor investigation procedures by the police, who allegedly threatened to beat Wright if he wouldn't sign a confession written by the police.

Wright is the 344th DNA exoneree in the nation, the group said.