Sentences overturned by high court

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday resentenced three death row inmates to life in prison because judges, not juries, had decided they deserved to be executed for their murders.

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