After spending more than four decades in prison for a murder he did not commit, Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam’s long-awaited freedom has been replaced by a new ordeal — the threat of deportation to India, a country he barely knows.

The 64-year-old, who was released from Pennsylvania’s Huntingdon State Correctional Institution on October 3, after his murder conviction was overturned, was immediately detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Vedam, a permanent US resident who came to the country from India when he was nine months old, had spent nearly his entire adult life behind bars for the 1980 shooting death of 19-year-old Thomas Kinser, in Pennsylvania. Kinser’s body was found in a sinkhole near State College, and police accused Vedam, his former high school classmate, of b

See Full Page