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| Sentenced as a teenager to life in prison, Arkansas inmate free after 4 decades |
| By arkansasonline.com- Ron Wood |
| Published: 10/26/2016 |
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FAYETTEVILLE -- A Washington County judge ordered the release of a man who was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he committed when he was a teenager in Springdale more than 40 years ago. Dennis Wayne Lewis, 59, of Wichita, Kan., was convicted of capital murder and assault with intent to rob. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, something recent courts have found unconstitutional because he was a minor at the time and the only other sentence available for him was execution. Lewis was 17 years and 5 months old when he killed Jared Jerome Cobb at Cobb's Western Store and Pawn Shop during an armed robbery April 8, 1974. Read More. |
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