Indledning
The United States of America is one of the countries in the world, that still have the death penalty. But sometime the wrong people end up on the death row.
One of those people is Nick Yarris. He spent over one third of his life on the death row - for a crime he did not commit.
When Nick was 20 years old, he was first arrested after being accused of attempted kidnapping and murder of a police officer, which later was acquitted.
He tried to trade his freedom, by giving information about giving information about a woman’s murder, he had only read about in the newspaper.
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Uddrag
The article is a non-fiction, and the sender of the article is Maria Cacciottolo who wrote the article for BBC, but it is also Nick Yarris, as it is his story the article is about, and that Nick has been interviewed for the article.
The message of the article can have some different angles and depend on how you look at it. The message can for example be about how a young boy in a bad environmentally neighborhood, life got destroyed.
“His happy childhood was shattered when, aged seven, he was attacked by a teenage boy who hit him on the head so hard it gave him brain damage and then raped him.” (ll. 24-26) “he recently saw a photo from his own childhood, showing 27 children from his neighbourhood in the 1970s.” (ll. 75-76).
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