Subramanyam Vedam, whose deportation was stayed by two courts in the United States last week, spent 43 years behind bars for the murder he maintained he never committed. The stay order has given relief to Vedam and his family, who had challenged the decades-old deportation order, fighting to keep him in the US, which they say is his only home.
India-born Vedam, who is fondly called Subu by his family, had walked out of a Pennsylvania prison on October 3 after he was exonerated of the murder charge of his school friend Thomas Kinser. But his freedom did not last even for a day. As soon as he was released, he was taken into detention by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for deportation to India. The clearing of Vedam’s murder charge did not affect his earlier drug-related conviction.
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However, his deportation has been stayed, and 64-ye
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