a serial killer sentenced to death after murdering and dismembering 5 women...

a serial killer sentenced to death after murdering and dismembering 5 women returned to a Long Island courtroom, where a judge revised his sentence to life without parole.
The change was the result of a decision last year on June 24 (see) by the state Court of Appeals that effectively placed a moratorium on executions in New York because since that ruling, the state Legislature has been unable to agree on a bill to correct the problem.
Robert Shulman, 51, was convicted in March 1999 by a Suffolk County jury of 1st-degree murder in the deaths of three women; the following year he was convicted in Westchester for murdering two victims whose bodies were found in Yonkers.
Shulman, was convicted of killing Kelly Sue Bunting, 28, whose body was found in December 1995; Lisa Ann Warner, 18, whose body was found in April 1995; and an unidentified woman whose mutilated body was found in December 1994.
Suffolk County Court Judge Arthur Pitts imposed the sentence.