Court Report

Death Penalty for Sampson Appealed

Nearly seven years after a federal jury recommended that Gary Lee Sampson be sentenced to death for carjacking and killing two motorists during a weeklong 2001 series of killings in two states, lawyers for the Abington man plan to argue in court today that he should get a new trial. The legal team for Sampson, who would be the first person executed for a crime in Massachusetts since 1947, contend in a 155-page motion that his constitutional rights were violated because his trial lawyers were ineffective. Read more...
Posted by Webmaster at August 31, 2010 01:11 AM