California Supreme Court
Feb. 4, 2012
State supreme court grants another death row reprieve
The state Supreme Court granted its third death row reprieve in two months Thursday to a man convicted of killing a woman by putting her in the trunk of a car and setting it on fire.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state Supreme Court Thursday granted its third death row reprieve in two months to a man convicted of killing a woman by putting her in the trunk of a car and setting it on fire.
Gary Galen Brents was convicted of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of kidnapping in the 1995 death of Kelly Gordon over $100 from a methamphetamine sale.
But a unanimous Supreme Court reversed t...
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