# data[].attributes.body
Her body showed signs of being beaten, stabbed and raped. The body was not near the vehicle though. She was found a mile and a half away from her car in a church parking lot.

# data[].attributes.body
A young sales associate did not make it home one day after her shift. On October 15th of 1981, she was abducted in her car. When her husband became worried after waiting for her to come home for hours, he called the police.

# data[].attributes.body
The investigators went to work and soon found her car, a yellow Chrysler Cordoba, abandoned on roadway in Chichester, PA. The very next day, her body was found.

# data[].attributes.body
Four days after her body was discovered, Nicholas Yarris was pulled over and then arrested for attempted murder of a police officer. While was in custody he accused an acquaintance of committing the Tri-State mall assault in an attempt to gain his freedom. Once this suspect was ruled out, Yarris turned into the prime suspect.

# data[].attributes.body
In 1982, Nicholas Yarris was convicted of murder, rape, and abduction. He was given the death sentence.

# data[].attributes.body
Yarris continued to proclaim his innocence, he demanded for the DNA evidence to be tested. In 1989, he became one of Pennsylvania’s first death row inmates to demand post conviction DNA testing to prove his innocence. Multiple tests were run and they all failed to produce conclusive results. Finally, Dr. Edward Blake conducted a final round of testing on the gloves found in the victim’s car, this is when the truth came out, fingernail scrapings from the victim, and the remaining spermatozoa obtained from the decedent’s underwear. It was discovered that the profiles taken from the gloves and the spermatozoa evidence came from the same person.

# data[].attributes.body
On July 2, 2003, Nicholas Yarris was excluded from all biological material connected with this crime. Months after, on September 3rd, 2003, due to Dr. Blake’s results, the court vacated Yarris’s conviction and he officially became the 140th person in the United States to be exonerated by postconviction DNA testing. He was the 13th DNA exoneration from death row itself. January 16th, 2004, Nicholas Yarris was finally freed from a Pennsylvania prison after spending over 21 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

# data[].attributes.body
Gregg v. Georgia is a case between Troy Leon Gregg and the state of Georgia. The case itself was quite confusing. Gregg was convicted to the death penalty, but he bypassed it for four years until they actually convicted him.

# data[].attributes.body
Troy Gregg, was charged with committing armed robbery and murder. The trial was in two stages, a guilt stage and a sentencing stage. The evidence at the guilt trial stated that on November 21, 1973, the suspect and a companion, Floyd Allen, were hitchhiking in northern Florida, and they were picked up by Fred Simmons and Bob Moore. Their car broke down, but they continued north after Simmons purchased another vehicle with some of the cash he was carrying. While still in Florida, they picked up another hitchhiker, Dennis Weaver, who rode with them to Atlanta, where he was let out about 11 p.m. A short time later the four men interrupted their journey for a rest stop along the highway. The next morning the bodies of Simmons and Moore were discovered in a ditch nearby.

# data[].attributes.body
Allen recounted the events leading to the slayings. He stated, after Simmons and Moore left the car, Gregg stated that he was gonna rob them. The petitioner then took his pistol (a .25-caliber pistol) in hand and positioned himself on the car to improve his aim. As Simmons and Moore came toward the car, Gregg fired three shots and the two men fell near a ditch. Gregg, at close range, then fired a shot into the head of each. He robbed them of valuables and drove away with Allen.

# data[].attributes.body
On November 23, after reading about the shootings in an Atlanta newspaper, Weaver communicated with the Gwinnett County police and relayed information concerning the journey with the victims, including a description of the car. The next afternoon, Gregg and Allen, while in Simmons' car, were arrested in Asheville, N.C. In the search incident to the arrest a.25-caliber pistol, later shown to be that used to kill Simmons and Moore, was found in the petitioner's pocket.

# data[].attributes.body
A medical examiner testified that Simmons died from a bullet wound in the eye and that Moore died from bullet wounds in the cheek and in the back of the head. He further testified that both men had several bruises and abrasions about the face and head which were sustained either from the fall into the ditch or from being dragged or pushed along the ground.

# data[].attributes.body
Gregg was charged with committing armed robbery and murder on the basis of evidence. At the trial stage of Georgia's procedure, the jury found Gregg guilty of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of murder. At the penalty stage, the judge instructed the jury that it could recommend either a death sentence or a life prison sentence on each count. The jury chose a sentence of death. The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the convictions.

# data[].attributes.body
Gregg challenges imposition of the death sentence under the Georgia statute as "cruel and unusual" punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Because of this intelligent use of the amendments Gregg's case was put on hold to properly understand how the death penalty should fit in America. In the end, the Court on a number of occasions has both assumed and asserted the constitutionality of capital punishment.

# data[].attributes.body
Gregg never made it to the electric chair. He escaped from prison in July, 1980, the night before his set date for execution, but died the following night in a bar fight in North Carolina.