Every Christmas Day, devoted Marita Maharaj sets a place at the table for her husband Kris. She has carried out the ritual for years, clinging to the hope that he will finally be released from jail for a double murder he did not commit.
But Marita is still waiting at her home in Florida. Kris, now 81, has spent 33 years in jail there – the first 15 on Death Row – after becoming unwittingly embroiled in the violent world of drug lord Pablo Escobar.
He was only spared the electric chair thanks to British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith – founder of the charity Reprieve.
The organisation, which this year celebrates its 20th birthday, has saved over 400 people like Kris from the death penalty across the globe.