On Jan. 16 Nicholas Yarris walked from a state prison in Pennsylvania after spending two decades on death row. DNA had proven his innocence. He joins us in our studio today and we hear Mumia Abu Jamal ...

Four years ago on a cold January day, former death-row inmate Nicholas Yarris won his freedom after wrongfully spending 22 years — half his life — in prison.Virtually penniless and in a time warp, he ...

On Jan. 16, 2004, Nicholas Yarris walked out of prison a free man after 22 years on Pennsylvania’s death row. Yarris, now 54, is one of 15 people in the United States – and the only person in ...

Nicholas James Yarris, exonerated by DNA testing after spending 22 years on death row in the rape-murder of an Upper Chichester woman, has reached a “multi-million dollar” out-of-court settlement in a ...

Nicholas Yarris, 46, became the first person freed from Pennsylvania's death row by DNA testing when he was released in January 2004. Yarris had first asked for the tests 16 years earlier. "My case ...

When Nicholas Yarris left death row in 2004 after serving 23 years for a murder he didn’t commit, the former Philadelphia man had no home to call his own, no job to support himself and few family ...

Pennsylvania defense lawyers disclosed yesterday that DNA testing clears a death-row inmate of rape and murder, and implicates two unidentified men. Nicholas Yarris’ conviction in 1982 for kidnapping, ...

“I’m invincible when I believe in myself,” Yarris said. “I know I can’t be defeated for something I didn’t do.” In September 2003, Yarris, 43, was exonerated for the murder and rape of Linda Mae Craig ...

A former Pennsylvania death-row inmate whose murder conviction was overturned might be released from prison soon, now that prosecutors in Orlando have figured out how to handle a separate sentence he ...