PHILADELPHIA -- 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 Saturday, according to the Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty.
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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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