USA - Arizona. A jury sentenced Pete Van Winkle to death
USA - Arizona. A jury sentenced Pete Van Winkle to death
A Maricopa County jury sentenced Pete Van Winkle to death for the May 2008 murder of a fellow inmate, Robert Cotton, 27, in the Fourth Avenue Jail. Van Winkle, 27, a white supremacist, was caught on surveillance tape as he beat and strangled Cotton to death. Judge Paul McMurdie also sentenced Van Winkle to 22 years in prison for lesser crimes.
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- (source: The Arizona Republic, 17/11/2009)
