2ND INMATE WANTS SENTENCE CUT

From: Rocky Mountain News | Date: July 3, 2002 | Copyright information

A second inmate awaiting execution in Colorado has asked the state's highest court to reduce his sentence to life after a U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring that death-penalty decisions be made only by juries.

In a motion filed Monday with the state Supreme Court, George Woldt said the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, combined with state law, requires that his sentence be redu...

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