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Federal appeals court voids death sentence in 1980 Tucson rape-murder

Cronkite News//February 8, 2016//[read_meter]

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Federal appeals court voids death sentence in 1980 Tucson rape-murder

Federal appeals court voids death sentence in 1980 Tucson rape-murder

Cronkite News//February 8, 2016//[read_meter]

A sharply divided court Feb. 4 overturned Robert Douglas Smith’s death sentence in a brutal 1980 rape and murder near Tucson, saying lower courts wrongly ignored evidence that Smith was...

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