In this April 15, 2004 file photo, Darryl Hunt smiles after learning that he has been granted a pardon in the 1984 murder of Deborah Sykes. Hunt spent 19 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. He was recently diagnosed with cancer before he died of what police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a friend and minister said Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (Megan Morr/Winston-Salem Journal via AP, File)