To deny the death penalty is to insist on life for evil. If the most hardened criminal goes unpunished, we adhere to a system that denies life to those whose persons were violated. This grants life to those who commit evil acts.
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20031210yarris1210p1.asp
DNA exonerates death row inmate
State won't retry Nicholas Yarris for 1981 Delaware County murder; he's first in state to use genetic test to escape death penalty
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
By Cindi Lash, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A Pennsylvania death row inmate became the first in the state to be exonerated by DNA evidence after prosecutors announced yesterday they would not retry him for the 1981 rape and murder of a suburban Philadelphia woman.