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Scott Peterson's death sentence was overturned in 2020, [1] and then in 2021, Peterson was re-sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [ 2 ] In 2024, Peterson was granted a status hearing in response to a request by the LA Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization claiming to have new evidence supporting ...
Peterson, 49, had been held on death row at San Quentin State prison since 2005 after being convicted a year earlier of murdering his wife, Laci, who was seven months pregnant with their unborn ...
The California Supreme Court overturned Scott’s death penalty sentence in 2020, ruling that the trial judge “made a series of clear and significant errors in jury selection" that "undermined ...
A San Mateo County judge on Wednesday ruled that Scott Peterson — who has been on San Quentin’s Death Row since his 2004 conviction for the Christmas Eve murder of his pregnant wife, Laci, and ...
Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson was resentenced to life without parole Wednesday during an emotional hearing in which family members of his slain pregnant wife, Laci ...
Scott Peterson has been moved off San Quentin State Prison’s death row more than two years after his death sentence was overturned by the California Supreme Court. Peterson, who was re-sentenced ...
On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. Justice Marshall F. McComb was the lone dissenter, arguing that the death penalty deterred crime, noting numerous Supreme Court precedents upholding the death penalty's constitutionality, and stating that the legislative and initiative processes were ...
Convicted murderer Scott Peterson will have to go through the penalty phase of his trial again, a California judge ruled on Friday according to KCRA, after being on death row for 15 years.After ...