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By Steve Hall

"Gardner's attorney asks high court to throw out death sentence," is the title of Pamela Manson's report in today's Salt Lake Tribune. A lawyer for Ronnie Lee Gardner asked the state's highest court on Thursday to throw out his death sentence and halt his execution. With just two weeks left before Gardner is slated to die, Andrew Parnes argued to the Utah Supreme Court that his client might have gotten a life sentence if adequate mitigating evidence had been presented to a trial jury years ago. "Finality [of the case] is not the be-all and end-all," he said. "It's fairness." Parnes is asking the Supreme Court to either impose a life sentence without parole or order a new sentencing hearing...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 04, 2010 (boomark / email).