Flutterby™! : Nick Yarris 2006-09-26 22:23:39.221098+02

Nick Yarris

2006-09-26 22:23:39.221098+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I've said before that I'm for the death penalty in theory, against it in practice. Here's why I'm not only against it in practice, but why I'm convinced that the penal system in this country is fucked up and rotten to the core. Michael Buerk interviews Nick Yarris about his 8,057 days (22 years) on death row for a crime he didn't commit (via Sensible Erection).

Yarris wasn't someone with his life together, and in many ways was downright stupid, but the way in which the system (and a populace bent on revenge, not justice) abused him is pretty sick. And well worth listening to all the way through.

And Nick Yarris's own website.

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