RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada is paying $2.85 million more to a woman who spent almost 34 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit.
The state attorney general announced Monday that Cathy Woods also received a Certificate of Innocence in the 1976 murder of which she was exonerated by DNA evidence.
The settlement approved Friday was the third compensating Woods. She received separate settlements totaling $6 million from Washoe County in 2019 and the cities of Reno and Shreveport, Louisiana, in August. Woods is now 70 and lives in Washington state.
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The National Registry of Exonerations lists her as the longest-ever wrongfully incarcerated woman in U.S. history.