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| Court hears appeal from death row inmate |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/04/2006 |
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BOSTON, MA - Convicted killer Gary Sampson asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to overturn his death sentence, arguing that a judge gave confusing instructions to the jury that condemned him to death. Sampson, a drifter from Abington, pleaded guilty in the killings of Jonathan Rizzo, 19, of Plymouth, and Philip McCloskey, 69, of Taunton, during a weeklong crime rampage in July 2001. He also confessed to killing a third man -- Robert "Eli" Whitney, 58, in Meredith, N.H. -- and was sentenced separately in that case to life in prison. A federal jury in Boston gave him the death penalty in December 2003 after hearing weeks of testimony about how Sampson carjacked each of the men, then fooled them into thinking he only wanted to steal their cars before slitting their throats. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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