Albert Tomei, Judge Who Doomed New York Executions, Dies at 77 – New York Times

New York TimesAlbert Tomei, a Brooklyn judge whose rejection in 1997 of a murder defendant’s plea bargain crippled New York State’s recently revived death penalty, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 77. The cause was throat cancer, his wife, Lynda Sumner, said. …read more Source:: New York City News By Google News

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