Tonight on the Colbert Report, Kirk Bloodsworth, the first person to be exonerated from death row using DNA testing, will talk about his time on death row and how DNA testing set him free. The program airs at 11:31 p.m. on Comedy Central.
He was exonerated in 1993. Today Kirk is the Advocacy Director for Witness to Innocence, an advocacy group working to abolish the death penalty.










