Death Row Inmates Offer Scholarships

A college student who wants to become a police officer is getting aid from an unlikely source: death row inmates.

Zach Osborne was awarded a $5,000 scholarship in June to continue pursuing his degree at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. He is the seventh recipient of the scholarship started in 2001 by convicts on death row to help families of murder victims.

In 1992, Mr. Osborne’s sister, Natalie, age 4, was raped and murdered in Asheboro, N.C., by his mother’s boyfriend, Jeffrey Kandies. Mr. Kandies was on the state’s death row until June 27, when his sentence was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court and returned to a...