121 days old: Nick Yarris' new life after he was freed from death row.(Exoneration)
American Prospect, The, July, 2004 by Lowenstein, Tom
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IF YOU'D ASKED NICK YARRIS HOW OLD HE WAS, ON May 17, 2004--his 43rd birthday--he'd have told you, "121 days." For the rest of his life, Yarris will have his regular birthday and the day he was born again: January 16, 2004, the day he walked out of the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Greene a free man after 22 years on death row.
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That birth had a long labor of its own, starting probably at age 7, when Yarris was sexually assaulted by a neighborhood predator. By 18 he was a tough high-school dropout, using drugs to protect himself from, as he puts it, ...
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