Antuan Bronshtein's 1st-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of 61-year-old Alexander Gutman...

Antuan Bronshtein's 1st-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of 61-year-old Alexander Gutman has been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. However, the federal court did award Bronshtein, now 33, a new sentencing hearing, finding that the jury that sentenced him to death in April 1994 wasn't adequately instructed that a life prison sentence in Pennsylvania means life without the possibility of parole.
Bronshtein, then 22, was convicted of 1st-degree murder and sentenced to death after a trial on April 22, 1994, for killing Alexander Gutman in his store on Jan. 11, 1991.