After spending more than half of his life on Pennsylvania’s death row for a crime he did not commit, Nicholas Yarris was released from prison on Friday, January 16. Yarris had been sentenced to death row in 1983 for the murder of Linda Craig and was cleared of all charges in December 2003 (see DPIC’s press release) after DNA evidence excluded him from the crime. He remained jailed for weeks after he was exonerated while authorities recalculated sentences he received in Florida for crimes he committed after escaping from sheriff’s deputies in 1985. His case was on appeal at that time. Prosecutors now say they do not know who murdered Craig. (Associated Press, January 17, 2004) See Innocence.