Spaniard Julio Mora walked off death row on Tuesday,...

Spaniard Julio Mora walked off death row on Tuesday, when his sentence was reduced to life in prison during a court hearing in Ft. Lauderdale.
Mora, 76, received 3 life sentences with no chance of parole from Judge Paul Backman, who had previously sentenced him to death.
Mora received the original sentence in 1997, but the Florida Supreme Court overturned the punishment based on a legal technicality.
At the hearing's close, prosecutors refused to ask for the death penalty due to the defendant's advanced age and apparently unstable mental condition.
District attorney Tim Donnelli refused to pursue the death penalty against Mora because the wait on death row is approximately 14 years, which means he would be executed at about the age of 90. Spain's Consul General in Miami, Javier Vallaure, expressed the Spanish government's satisfaction for the relatively happy ending to the prisoner's case.
He was found guilty of the 1994 murder of his former boss, Clarence Rudolph, and attorney Karen Starr Marx, who was 4 months pregnant.