The Death Penalty

In 1981, Nicholas James Yarris was arrested, tried, and convicted for the rape and murder of Linda Mae Craig Boothwyn, a mother of three who was allegedly abducted by him from the Tri-State Mall in Claymont, Delaware, (Fish 2004, 1). YarrisÆ conviction was overturned in 2003, after DNA evidence found on the victimÆs body exonerated him as the murderer. DNA testing was not available more than 20 years ago when Yarris was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to die for CraigÆs murder. YarrisÆ fate is not dissimilar to a number of other individuals on death row whose fates have been dramatically altered by DNA testing.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), Yarris is the first Pennsylvania death row inmate to be cleared by DNA evidence, because more than 112 other death row inmates have been exonerated due to DNA testing (Bowser 2003, 1). Though Yarris has been cleared of the r

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