a Marion County jury decided the death penalty for Robert Paul Langley Jr. in the murder of Anne Louise Gray.

a Marion County jury decided the death penalty for Robert Paul Langley Jr. in the murder of Anne Louise Gray.
Langley, has had three death sentences overturned by the Oregon Supreme Court. His case dates to 1989, when separate Marion County juries sentenced him to death for the murders of Gray and Larry Rockenbrant.
Langley killed Anne Louise Gray, in late 1987. In the spring of 1988, he killed Rockenbrant.
The Oregon Supreme Court reversed both cases. It overturned the death sentence in the Gray case because the judge did not allow Langley to present evidence that might have caused the jury to spare his life. The court overturned his conviction for killing Rockenbrant, saying the judge should not have allowed jurors to hear about the Gray murder.
Langley was convicted again of killing Rockenbrant and given a sentence of life with a minimum of 30 years. Another jury sentenced him to death for killing Gray.
The Supreme Court overturned his death sentence in 2000 because the judge did not allow the jury to consider a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.