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Appeals panel reinstates 1998 death sentence

It rejects animal-abuse argument

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 5:38 a.m.

A federal judge in Little Rock shouldn’t have vacated a Harrison man’s death sentence last year on the grounds that jurors didn’t get to hear about animal abuse the man witnessed as a child, an appeals court panel said Wednesday.

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