Is this justice?

Gov. Sonny Perdue has approved a $500,000 payout for a Georgia man who spent almost three decades in prison before DNA tests cleared him of rape.

Perdue signed the resolution compensating John Jerome White on Tuesday.

The 48-year-old had initially been set to receive $709,000 but Georgia lawmakers reduced that amount after it was revealed White had a separate conviction on a burglary charge.

Critics said the state shouldn’t be compensating a “career criminal.” But supporters said he’d spent most of his life behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit.

The state has paid out $3.9 million to four other inmates cleared through DNA evidence.

I hope he gets some sound financial advice, or in 3 weeks we will be reading that he is broke.

what a sad sad situation, to put a price on 30 years of your life.