The Connecticut Supreme Court threw out a death sentence...

The Connecticut Supreme Court threw out a death sentence for the bludgeoning of a 13-year-old boy, and clarified the standard jurors must meet before calling for capital punishment, was an 18-year-old ex-Marine at the time. Todd Rizzo, who confessed to the September 1997 murder of Stanley Edwards. The ruling does not overturn Rizzo's guilty plea or the death penalty law. It sends the case back to Superior Court for a new penalty hearing. Jurors must be instructed to find "beyond a reasonable doubt" that aggravating factors outweigh mitigating factors in order to arrive at a death sentence, the court ruled.