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Friday, 29 February 2008
Fla. woman's death penalty overturned, gets new sentencing
Posted on Thu, Feb. 28, 2008
The Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A woman on death row will get a new sentence
because the Florida Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling.
The justices, though, upheld Virginia Larzelere's murder conviction
for masterminding the shotgun slaying of her husband, an Edgewater
dentist.
The high court agreed with the trial judge that her lawyers botched
the sentencing phase of her trial by failing to introduce mitigating
evidence about her mental health and sexual abuse as a child.
Her son was charged with being the trigger man, but a separate jury
acquitted him.
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