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Nicholas James Yarris (born May 18, 1961) is an American writer and storyteller who spent 22 years on death row in Pennsylvania after being wrongfully convicted of murder.
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In 1982, Nicholas Yarris was convicted of murder, rape, and abduction. He was sentenced to death. Still, Yarris proclaimed his innocence, leading to a long struggle for DNA testing of the crime scene evidence.
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Nov 16, 2016 · Nick Yarris tells how he survived 22 years on death row after being wrongly convicted of raping and murdering a woman, before being freed by DNA technology.
Mar 8, 2022 · Four days after the discovery of the body, police stopped 20-year-old Nicholas Yarris on a Pennsylvania roadway for a traffic violation. The routine stop escalated into a violent confrontation between Yarris and the patrolman and ended in Yarris’s arrest for attempted murder of a police officer.
Aug 18, 2016 · Nick Yarris was convicted in 1982 of a rape and murder he did not commit and was sentenced to death in Pennsylvania. He was one of the state’s first death row inmates to demand post-conviction DNA testing to prove his innocence.
Sep 3, 2017 · Nick Yarris was stabbed, strangled and beaten during his time at Huntingdon Prison in Pennsylvania after being wrongly sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Linda Mae Craig in 1981.