USA - Alabama. The Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the conviction of Derrick Shawn Penn

The Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the conviction of Derrick Shawn Penn, 47, Black. He was sentenced to death on May 6, 2011 (see) in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife, Janet Penn, and her boyfriend, Demetrius Powe, in 2009. The appeals court said the trial judge did not give the jury proper instructions about how it should consider a protection from abuse petition that Penn had filed before she was killed.