A former death row inmate has been freed from a Nashville prison for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail.

Paul House was released Wednesday to await retrial in the 1985 slaying of Carolyn Muncey. Two years ago the U.S. Supreme Court concluded he would not have been convicted based on DNA evidence that emerged years after his trial.

The 46-year-old House, who has multiple sclerosis and cannot walk, left the prison in the back of a white sport utility vehicle accompanied by his mother.

Under the conditions of his release, House can’t leave his mother’s home and must be monitored 24 hours a day.

House maintains he did not kill Muncey. Prosecutors are no longer seeking the death penalty.