My name is Nicholas Yarris and I am originally from Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the USA. I now make my home here in St. Albans, just outside London with my wife Karen and daughter Lara Rebecca. I spend my days now sharing time with Karen raising Lara here in the UK . I also am the current spokesperson for REPRIEVE, which is the UK charity fighting for citizens from the UK who are facing the death penalty world-wide. I have just signed a deal to have my book published by Harper-Collins JULY 21St 2008.

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Currently also have been working with a film production company for the feature film-documentary of my life being made now.
It is really gratifying to me that I am allowed this chance to write my book and to do so in my own words. I am really hoping that the book allows me a platform from which to truly affect the death penalty. It is my hope that the efforts I have made come to mean so much to the many people who really needed me to get out of prison and make recovery of my life, a healing part in their own lives.
  I enjoy my Role as public spokesperson for a human rights charity working to protect UK nationals from being executed world-wide, as well as going forward with my economic efforts to end the death penalty through moral trade aimed primarily at Pennsylvania. If you want to come to a presentation that I have been asked to give, please contact me through my website WWW.Nickyarris.com or REPIEVE can be found on the web at WWW.Reprieve.org.uk it is my hope that my continued speaking opportunites remains a positive message for those who attend.
     In the course reading my new book titled; SEVEN DAYS TO LIVE you will learn that I believe two men are innocent that I shared death row with. The latest news on these two men is this: I am hoping that Ernie Simmons is realeased sometime in 2008 as he has been moved off of death row to a minimum security prison where he waits his release/re-trial now that all his convictions have been set aside in court. Meanwhile Walter Ogrod is hoping that his new lawyers (who have UK offices) manages to get the latest appeal heard in court fairly. I have to say, since I began fighting to get these two men out when I was first set free in 2004, I expected at least one of them to be home by now. I will not rest until they have each been given their lives back. I owe that to all of the people who helped me along the way.
  I am really excited to have such a Harper-Collins take on my book. It really has me feeling hopeful for what is ahead now. I feel like I can relax a bit more now and allow the book to finally come to life with a major publisher who will really push it. I know I will make everyone who gave me this chance really happy to have taken on this material. It is now up to the public to embrace or reject me after that point.
It is still such a sweet thought that I have daily, that now that I passed my 46th birthday in 2007, how all of these days I live from here on are now mine in a new ballance I can now count in the span of my whole life. This thought is something that only someone who lost 23 years can appreciate about owning more than that amount of my life that was taken from me, replacing it with living in a free society of my own making.
Please stay tuned to new things that I will post on my website WWW Nickyarris.com as it remains my outpost to the world about my life as well as my connection to my friends all over the world.
I wish you all a good life ahead.
Nicholas James Yarris,
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