Two men on Colorado's death row were spared when the...

Two men on Colorado's death row were spared when the state's highest court ruled that their death sentences, imposed by 3-judge panels, were unconstitutional.
The Colorado Supreme Court ordered George Woldt and Francisco Martinez Jr. to be re-sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The decision follows a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in June that held that juries, not judges, must determine whether the death penalty is appropriate. The court ruled in an Arizona case.
Woldt was convicted in the April 29, 1997, kidnapping, rape and assault of Jacine Gielinski, a college student in Colorado Springs.
Martinez was convicted in the May 30, 1997, kidnapping, torture, rape and murder of 14-year-old Brandy Duvall in Commerce City.
There are 3 other men on Colorado's death row. 2 of them were sentenced by juries before the 1995 law took effect. The case of the 3rd, William Neal, remains before the state Supreme Court on automatic appeal of his death sentence. A 3-judge panel had sentenced him to death after he pleaded guilty to killing 3 women in 1998.