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Innocent Man Who Spent 22 Years On Death Row Reveals Heartbreaking Story

Innocent Man Who Spent 22 Years On Death Row Reveals Heartbreaking Story

It's being made into a Netflix documentary.

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

There's probably little else as devastating as being wrongly convicted of rape and murder and having to see out a generation on death row.

American Nick Yarris is a man who suffered that fate, but managed to live to tell the tale.

After spending 22 years waiting for his execution as a result of a crime he never committed, he was finally found innocent in 2004.

Back in 2002, the 55-year-old was infected with hepatitis after suffering a horrific beating in prison. He requested to be executed as he wanted to pass away with more dignity, rather than die as a result of the illness.

Appearing on This Morning, Nick told the story of how he was wrongly facing death by the electric chair, reducing viewers to tears.

Credit: ITV/This Morning

"I didn't do the crime, but I'd have loved myself to say 'I'm not going to die like that'," he told the presenters.

Nick's plea to be executed was denied by a judge, so he instead demanded a DNA test to prove whether or not he was guilty.

Now living in Yeovil, Somerset, he is now releasing a book regarding his time behind bars, and is happy he can now tell his version of events.

"I pushed myself somehow to not be hurt by that, to somehow be a loving person," he said.

"To find within myself anything good, it's all I had left.

"I wanted to use that empowerment over what they did to me to show people that it really matters that we take ourselves seriously."

Netflix is going to make the book into a documentary about the 8,057 days he spent wrongly convicted of rape and murder.

Featured image credit: ITV/This Morning

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Topics: This Morning, Death Row