U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Oct. 31, 2012
Death sentence reversed for longest-serving man on death row
A week before Californians vote on whether to end capital punishment, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday reversed the death sentence of the longest-serving man on San Quentin's death row.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A week before Californians vote on whether to end capital punishment, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday reversed the death sentence of the longest-serving man on San Quentin's death row.
Voting 2-1, the panel held that Douglas Ray "Chief" Stankewitz, an American Indian convicted and sentenced to die in 1978 in the shooting death of Theresa Greybeal in Fresno County, got ...
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