The Supreme Court unanimously upheld Shad Armstrong's...

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld Shad Armstrong's conviction in the February 1998 killings of his sister, Farrah, and Frank Williams. However, the justices issued a separate ruling that overturned Armstrong's death sentences, ruling that a jury could have decided sentencing issues differently than the judge who sentenced Armstrong on Dec. 7, 2000. The ruling was the latest in which the state high court has reviewed death-penalty cases after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said juries, not judges, must decide whether factors exist that could warrant a death sentence. With the ruling in Armstrong's case, the state has now reviewed 18 cases, upholding one man's death sentence and ordering resentencings for 17 others. The case is State vs. Armstrong, CR-00-0595-AP.