Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·NOVEMBER 6, 2003

In Tallahassee, the Florida Supreme Court overturned...

In Tallahassee, the Florida Supreme Court overturned death sentences given to a pedophile who confessed to strangling two sisters in Broward County in 1996

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In Tallahassee, the Florida Supreme Court overturned death sentences given to a pedophile who confessed to strangling two sisters in Broward County in 1996. The court said in an unanimous opinion that a potential juror who opposed capital punishment was wrongly dismissed. The decision came in the appeal of Howard Steven Ault, who raped and killed 11-year-old DeAnn Mu'min and her 7-year-old sister, Alicia Jones. Ault, 37, will get a new sentencing hearing on his two murder convictions.
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  • (Sources: Associated Press)