in Fort Worth, Eddie C. Johnson, who has spent 8 years on death row...

in Fort Worth, Eddie C. Johnson, who has spent 8 years on death row, has been resentenced to life in prison because he was 17 when the murder occurred. In March, the Supreme Court ruled that executing inmates for murders they committed before age 18 violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Today's sentencing hearing in Judge Mike Thomas' courtroom took only minutes.
A Tarrant County jury condemnrd Johnson after convicting him of the March 1996 shooting death of Jeff Doolittle, 42, during a robbery.