Killer seeking files for appeal petition

It's been more than five years since Gary Lee Sampson was ordered executed for carjacking and killing an elderly man and a college student during a weeklong crime spree in July 2001, making him the first person sentenced to die under the federal death penalty for crimes committed in Massachusetts. (Full article: 756 words)

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