Nick Yarris

Nick Yarris
Born 1961 (age 54–55)
Nationality American
Occupation Delivery Driver
Known for Wrongly convicted of murder
Relatives Lara (daughter)
Jamie-Leigh (daughter)

Nick Yarris (born 1961) is an American writer and professional speaker, who spent 21 years on Death Row after he was wrongly convicted of murder.[1]

Yarris was stopped by the police in 1982 in his native Pennsylvania whilst he was in a stolen car and under the influence of drugs. To try and get out of jail time, he named a former drug-addict friend (who he thought had died) as the suspect in the rape and murder of Linda May Craig. When that friend turned up alive and with no involvement in Craig's murder, Yarris became the number-one suspect.[2]

Following a brief trial, Yarris was sentenced to death in 1982 and sent to Death Row.[3] In 2003, DNA evidence proved that he had not committed the crime[4] and in 2004, he was released.

He has lived in the UK since 2005, after "falling in love with the country" during a visit to address the British Parliament on death-penalty issues.[4]

He is the subject of the documentary The Fear of 13, and the author of the best selling biography Seven Days to Live My Life [5] and the 2013 follow up Seven Days to Love.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "American, 51, cleared of rape and murder after spending 20 years on death row starts new life in Britain with barmaid fiancee, 23, after they met through Facebook". Mail Online. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  2. ↑ Machell, Ben (12 November 2016). "I spent 22 years on Death Row - I was innocent". The Times. The Times Magazine (72066): 34–69. ISSN 0140-0460.
  3. ↑ "Death Penalty: Nicholas Yarris spent 22 years on death row for a murder he didn't commit". The Times Herald. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  4. 1 2 Cacciottolo, Mario (2016-11-16). "Nick Yarris: 'How I survived 22 years on death row'". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  5. ↑ "Archives - Philly.com". articles.philly.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  6. ↑ Yarris, Nick (2013). Seven Days to Love. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781492752400.
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