John Chamberlain, sentenced to death for a triple murder on Thanksgiving 1998, has had his sentence modified to life in prison

John Chamberlain, sentenced to death for a triple murder on Thanksgiving 1998, has had his sentence modified to life in prison at a court hearing. The death sentence of Thomas Thibault, his co-defendant and the shooter in the bloody robbery (the victims were: Bryan Harrison, 21, Daniel Ketchum, 27, and Charlotte Kenyon, 26) was reduced to life in September 2005 after a procedural technicality prompted prosecutors to offer Thibault life imprisonment as long as he didn't appeal his conviction. Chamberlain's lawyer then argued that his sentence should not be harsher. Circuit Judge Lucy Chernow Brown has agreed with that argument in Chamberlain's case. Thibault was convicted of 3 counts of 1st-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2001 by Circuit Judge Marvin Mounts. Chamberlain's trial was next. He was convicted of the same charges and also sentenced by Mounts to die. A third co-defendant, Jason Dascott, pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Thibault was resentenced to life because nobody, including Mounts, had ever asked him if he waived his right to a jury during the sentencing phase of his case. (see also Aug. 31, 2001;  May 10, 2002 anf June 6, 2003)