Ray Krone is the 100th American an 1st Arizonan to be exonerated from Death Row since the 1973 moratorium stemming from Furman v. Georgia. Originally sentenced to death in 1992, he was granted a new trial in 1994 and sentenced to 46 years in prison. Finally, in 2002, through the use of DNA evidence, he was able to prove his lack of guilt and was released with all charges dropped after spending 10 years and 4 months in the Arizona prison system. As of 2007, Ray Krone serves as director of communications and training for the organization Witness to Innocence. He has given numerous interviews, lectures, and testimony of his story to schools, media, and governments, as well as the United Nations.