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| Former PA Death Row Inmate Dies |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/17/2005 |
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A man freed after spending more than five years on Pennsylvania's death row has died of medical problems that he claimed went untreated in prison. William Nieves, 39, died last week, according to the Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty. Nieves campaigned against the death penalty in the U.S. and Europe after his release in 2000. Nieves said prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence at his 1994 trial over the shooting death of an alleged drug associate. Prosecutors denied wrongdoing. The state Supreme Court granted Nieves a new trial on grounds of inadequate counsel, and a second jury acquitted him. Nieves suffered from a liver ailment that was not treated in prison and had been hospitalized in recent months, said Jeff Garis, former executive director of the anti-death penalty group. "This is a guy that got put on death row for something he didn't do. Eventually this injustice was found," Garis said. "Yet he left prison with another kind of a death sentence." |
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