USA - Arizona. The Arizona Supreme Court threw out two death sentences for James Wallace, 61, white

The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously threw out two death sentences for James Wallace, 61, white, who bludgeoned his girlfriend and her two children to death, ruling that the murders weren't especially heinous even though they were "atrocious" and "senseless." The state's highest court imposed two sentences of life in prison for the children's killings. That's on top of the life sentence he is already serving for killing his girlfriend, Susan Insalaco. While the justices wrote that the Feb. 1, 1984, murders of Insalaco, her son, Gabriel, 12, and her daughter, Anna, 16, in their apartment were heinous in layman's terms, they weren't according to the letter of the law. That's because the justices found that Wallace didn't knowingly inflict more wounds on the family than he thought were necessary to kill them.