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Gary Lee Sampson is on federal death row. |
Killer can get new sentencing trial
By
Milton J. Valencia and J.M. Lawrence
Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent
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October 21, 2011
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A federal judge ruled yesterday that confessed serial killer Gary Lee Sampson is entitled to a new sentencing trial, throwing into question the first death penalty ever handed out in a federal court in Massachusetts and the first deriving from a crime in the state in more than a half-century. US District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf found that a juror in Sampson’s sentencing trial in 2003 lied during a jury selection process, which potentially could have resulted in a tainted verdict.
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