Alan Gell was convicted in 1998 of first-degree murder in the 1995 slaying of Allen Ray Jenkins, a retired truck driver. He remained on death row, where he is shown below, top, in 2002, until 2004. Gell's conviction and death sentence were thrown out in 2002 when a court found his trial was tainted by misconduct of prosecutors, who withheld statements of witnesses who said they had seen Jenkins alive while Gell was in jail on another offense. A jury in Bertie County found Gell not guilty in a retrial. Gell is shown below, bottom with his mother and sister on Feb. 18, 2004, the day he walked out of the Bertie County Courthouse a free man.