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Mar 26, 2020
News Brief — Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling Overturning William Housman’s Death Sentence
NEWS (3/26/20): Pennsylvania — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a trial court ruling granting a new sentencing hearing to death-row prisoner William Housman, agreeing that Housman’s defense counsel had failed to investigate and present mitigating evidence that might have persuaded his jury to spare his life. Housman and his co-defendant Beth Markman had been sentenced to death by a Cumberland County jury in 2001 for the murder of an 18-year-old Harrisburg area college student.