State agrees retarded killer of 2 can live
To let 1997 slayer of clerks in Holly Springs off death row, attorney general says
Posted: August 28, 2009 at 4:05 a.m.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said he will concede that a man sentenced to death in the 1997 shotgun slayings of two convenience store clerks should be spared from execution after a state-commissioned evaluation indicated the man is mentally retarded.
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