Freed death row inmate is compensated

A man condemned to death three times for murder and who spent 11 years on death row before being cleared has been awarded 1.27 million yuan ($196,000) in compensation.

Zeng Aiyun, once a graduate student at Xiangtan University in Hunan province, was convicted in 2004 of murdering a fellow student and sentenced to die.

The verdict was set aside three times on appeal and new trials were ordered, but at the first two retrials, in 2005 and 2010, Zeng was again condemned to death.