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Wrongly Convicted 22 Years on DEATH ROW | Nick Yarris #370

Posted on 26 August 202325 October 2023 by Chris Thrall

Wrongly Convicted 22 Years on DEATH ROW, features Nick Yarris who was falsely accused of rape and murder, until DNA found him innocent.

Wrongly Convicted 22 Years on DEATH ROW

Nick Yarris was wrongly convicted of heinous crimes and put on death row. He spent 22 years in prison before DNA testing finally proved his innocence. His time inside saw him rubbing shoulders with the man who inspired the film, Silence of The Lambs.

Transcript from ‘Wrongly Convicted 22 Years on DEATH ROW’ podcast

Nick – He goes, Nick you almost died so how come you’re not freaking out? I said Jason, when you’ve almost died the first time you’ll always remember that. When you’ve nearly died a second or third time it’ll scare you. When this has happened to you about a dozen times, you don’t go at it with fear. You step back and you observe it. It’s a strange thing that you were describing and you take a moment from that fear. Then you go back and then you’re like almost laughing about how you scared yourself. You know you’re dying anyway somewhere in your psyche. It’s like you become the observer in the situation, rather than the kind of victim.