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Innocent Nairobi man set free after 11 years on death row

For 11 years, Harrison Murigi was on death row but never gave up the legal battle to prove his innocence.

He was convicted for robbery with violence, a charge he persistently contested, insisting he was an accident victim mistaken by police for an armed robber in 2005. 

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