Troy Alan Burkhart, twice convicted and sentenced to death in a triple homicide 10 years ago...

Troy Alan Burkhart, twice convicted and sentenced to death in a triple homicide 10 years ago, was back in court today. Burkhart appeared before Judge J.C. Nicholson in Anderson County where he was resentenced for his prior conviction. Burkhart is accused in the November 1997 deaths of Sonya Cann, and brothers Shane Walters, 27, and Stacy Walters, 21.
He was first convicted and sentenced to death in March 2000, but the state Supreme Court overturned the conviction saying that the judge gave the jury improper instructions.
Burkhart was tried again for the crime in 2004. A jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death on March 31, 2004 (see). The conviction was upheld, but on January 11, 2007 (see) the sentencing phase was thrown out by the South Carolina Supreme Court because the judge said it was flawed.
Judge Nicholson sentenced Burkhart to 3 consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole -- the maximum sentence he could give.