Tyler Nick Yarris was convicted and sentenced to death for a 1981 murder in Delaware he says he didn't commit. At 20, he faced a three-day trial and received a death sentence plus 60 years, then spent 23 years in solitary confinement.
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I have the distinction of having begun life twice. In 1981, I was arrested and falsely accused of the rape and murder of a woman I never met in my life. Convicted and sentenced to die for a rape and murder I didn't commit at the age of 21 in 1981. I was originally arrested in 1981 for attempted murder and kidnapping of a police officer. A woman named Mrs. Craig was murdered in Delaware. The murder prosecution that I was charged with of Linda Mae Craig, and then for the first time ever, began seeking the death penalty. I was acquitted by a jury, and that made the prosecutor insane. They went after me with the death penalty and gave me a 3-day murder trial. I was given a 3-day murder trial at the age of 20 and sent to death, sentenced to die plus 60 years, and then I was sent to one of the worst prisons in America. I would endure 23 years of solitary confinement from that point. I was innocent.