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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 6, 2001

An Army veteran diagnosed as suffering from Gulf War...

An Army veteran diagnosed as suffering from Gulf War illness was sentenced to death for killing 3 children with a shotgun

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An Army veteran diagnosed as suffering from Gulf War illness was sentenced to death for killing 3 children with a shotgun. He got life for murdering their mother, his live-in girlfriend. Jeffrey Hutchinson showed no emotion as Circuit Judge G. Robert Barron pronounced sentence, but afterward made a brief statement proclaiming his innocence. "I did not kill Renee and the kids and I believe I was framed," he said. Hutchinson, 38, a former Army Ranger who became a self-employed body guard, claimed earlier that 2 men in ski masks broke in and killed postal worker Renee Flaherty, 32, and her children, Geoffrey, 9, Amanda, 7, and Logan, 4. The only penalties possible for Hutchinson were death or life in prison without parole for the Sept. 11, 1998 murders in a Crestview-area home where he lived with the victims.
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  • (Sources: Miami Herald, 07/02/2001)