. a popular former dallas cowboy making sure the women are ready for the football season. i'm amanda salinas. the news starts now. >>> they're images that are hard to forget. the wrongly convicted. celebrating something else. con ray payday for the innocent who spent time behind bars. con roadways will get $80,000 for each year they spent in jail. add to that a life continuity of $40,000 to $50,000 a year. making the texas package the most generous in the nation. dawn tongish has been following this story since the beginning. >>

Comments: John Stickles, UT Arlington professor of criminology and criminal justice, is featured prominently in this piece about payments from the state of Texas to exonerees recently cleared of wrongdoing through DNA evidence.