In Pennsylvania, a former death row prisoner freed by DNA testing after twenty-two years in jail has reached a multi-million-dollar settlement with the U.S. government. Nicholas Yarris was wrongly convicted of rape and murder in Pennsylvania in 1982. The conviction was overturned in September 2004, when DNA tests unavailable in the 1980s proved that genetic material found under the victim’s fingernails, on her undergarments, and in a pair of gloves possibly worn by the killer was not his. Yarris is the first death row inmate in Pennsylvania cleared by DNA testing.