| Sunday 15th May 2005 |
| BBC |
| A woman has married a man who spent 23 years on Death Row in the United States for a murder he did not commit.
Karen Karbritz, 30, from St Albans, Hertfordshire, wed Nick Yarris, 43, at a hotel in Enfield, north London, on Sunday. |
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| Tuesday 26th April 2005 |
| Daily Mirror |
| A CONVICTED rapist and murderer on Death Row is not most women's idea of the perfect husband. But the moment 30-year-old property manager Karen Karbritz clapped eyes on handsome American Nick Yarris, she knew he was the man for her.
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| Tuesday 1st February 2005 |
| Sundance Award Special Jury Prize Winner |
| AFTER INNOCENCE tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journey back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. Included are a police officer, an army sergeant and a young father sent to prison and even death row for decades for crimes they did not commit. |
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| Tuesday 11th January 2005 |
| The Daily Times, PA |
| Exonerated death-row inmate Nicholas J. Yarris was back at his post again Monday outside the courthouse, with fliers and a bullhorn, after a brief respite during the holidays. |
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| Tuesday 23rd November 2004 |
| The Guardian |
| Nick Yarris sat in his cell with a razor blade, and prepared to cut his wrists. He had been on death row for two years, convicted of murdering a woman he claimed to have never met. He had given up on life. |
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| Thursday 21st October 2004 |
| Wimbledon News |
| A suburban semi became the unlikely focus of a passionate demonstration by exonerated former death-row inmates against the death penalty this week. |
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| Friday 15th October 2004 |
| ITV This Morning |
| Nick Yarris (42) has served 22 years on deathrow for a crime he didn't commit. He was exonerated in January this year. One of the few comforts that helped him survive his final years behind bars were the hopeful and descriptive letters from his British pen pal Mary Vaughan (aged 60). |
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| Monday 4th October 2004 |
| BBC Radio 4 |
| Mary Vaughan had a 4 year correspondence with Nick Yarris. Nick was only 19 when he was sentenced to Death in Pennsylvania, USA. He was on Death Row for 23 years. He was released on 16 January 2004 with all charges dropped following DNA test results, which excluded him from the crime. Nick and Mary discuss their experiences and their friendship with Jenni. |
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| Thursday 22nd July 2004 |
| Amsterdam News |
| Nick Yarris was working on his doctorate too, but the money ran out. |
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| Wednesday 2nd June 2004 |
| World Net Daily |
| Pennsylvania Death Row Exoneree Nick Yarris Speaks of Abuse by Charles A. Graner Jr., Pennsylvanian Prison Guard and Abu Ghraib Torturer. |
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| Monday 17th May 2004 |
| Navy Times |
| Inmates at the state prison complained that Graner mistreated them, but none of the charges was upheld in the prison grievance process or in federal court. Still, former death-row inmate Nicholas Yarris maintains that Graner abused his authority. |
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| Sunday 16th May 2004 |
| USA Today |
| Inmates at the state prison complained that Graner mistreated them, but none of the charges was upheld in the prison grievance process or in federal court. Still, former death-row inmate Nicholas Yarris maintains that Graner abused his authority. |
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| Thursday 13th May 2004 |
| TalkLeft.com |
| According to Yarris, Graner was responsible for moving prisoners within the facility and was "violent, abusive, arrogant and mean-spirited" toward Yarris and other inmates. |
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| Wednesday 12th May 2004 |
| Independent Media Center Of Philadelphia |
| Philadelphia INPDUM president Kamau Becktemba compares the US imperial wars abroad with its racial war of oppression at home. He also introduces Jeff Garis of the PA Abolitionists, Nick Yarris (who spent 3 of his years on death row with the sadistic Charles Graner as one of guards watching over him), and Alison Hoehne of the African People's Solidarity Committee. |
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| Wednesday 12th May 2004 |
| WPVI (ABC Television Local) |
| One of the soldiers from Pennsylvania who is facing charges in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal also mistreated inmates in the U.S., according to an exonerated inmate from the Delaware Valley. |
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| Tuesday 11th May 2004 |
| TalkLeft.com |
| Nicholas Yarris, the Pennsylvania death row inmate who was exonerated by DNA evidence and released from prison after serving 22 years ome months ago, knows Charles A. Graner, Jr., one of the prison guards who's charged in Iraq,and says he's a bad apple-- violent and abusive |
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| Wednesday 11th February 2004 |
| Democracy Now |
| 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 discuss the Yarris case. |
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| Wednesday 21st January 2004 |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Attorneys for Nicholas Yarris, the Philadelphia man newly released from Pennsylvania's death row because of DNA tests, said yesterday that his long ordeal showed that the death penalty should be scrapped. |
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| Sunday 18th January 2004 |
| Sydney Morning Herald |
| AN inmate, who spent two decades on death row before DNA evidence exonerated him, walked out of prison a free man, saying he just wanted to go home to be with his family. |
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| Saturday 17th January 2004 |
| TalkLeft.com |
| Bump and Update: Latest news on the case is here and here. It's even news in Australia [via How Appealing]. |
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| Wednesday 14th January 2004 |
| TalkLeft.com |
| Former death row prisoner Nick Yarris will be released from prison within days. He is the first Pennyslvania inmate to be cleared by DNA evidence. He spent over half of his 42 years awaiting execution. |
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| Tuesday 9th December 2003 |
| TalkLeft.com |
| A Pennsylvania man today became the 112th person to be freed from death row because of factual innocence after prosecutors announced they are dropping charges against him. |
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| Wednesday 3rd December 2003 |
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| State won't retry Nicholas Yarris for 1981 Delaware County murder; he's first in state to use genetic test to escape death penalty |
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| Saturday 23rd August 2003 |
| TalkLeft.com |
| Ardmore, PA defense attorney Peter Goldberger (a frequent commenter on TalkLeft) has been working for ten years to overturn a death sentence in Pennyslvania through DNA testing. Finally, success! A Judge has ordered the death sentence to be vacated. A final order officially vacating the sentence should be forthcoming. |
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| Saturday 23rd August 2003 |
| USA Today |
| PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 1988, Nicholas Yarris read about advances in DNA testing that might help him appeal his conviction for the 1981 rape and murder of a mall employee. Yarris became the first person on Pennsylvania's death row to seek out the new test. |
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| Monday 28th July 2003 |
| TalkLeft.com |
| Nicholas James Yarris, 42, of Philadelphia has been on death row since for 21 years....half of his life. Today at a press conference, his lawyers, Peter Goldberger and Christina Swarns, announced that DNA testing has cleared him. |
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| Monday 28th July 2003 |
| TalkLeft.com |
| With the release today of Joseph Armine in Missouri, there have now been 111 inmates released from death row as a result of their innocence claims, according to the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty. If Nicholas Yarris is released in Pennsylvania, see the post just under this one, the number will be 112. |
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| Monday 28th July 2003 |
| The Washington Times |
| Pennsylvania defense lawyers disclosed yesterday that DNA testing clears a death-row inmate of rape and murder, and implicates two unidentified men. |
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