The death penalty for a man convicted of a 1986 murder...

The death penalty for a man convicted of a 1986 murder was reinstated by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. By a 2-1 vote, the panel overturned a federal judge's ruling three years ago that the jurors who sentenced Richard Hackett to death might have been confused by a flawed verdict form and poorly written instructions from a judge. The court majority said there was no reasonable likelihood that in Hackett's case, the bad form and instructions "prevented the consideration of constitutionally relevant evidence." Hackett and 3 other men were convicted of murdering a Philadelphia woman during a failed attempt to kill her boyfriend, who authorities alleged was a drug dealer.