USA - Georgia. Georgia Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ruling vacating Gregory Walker's death sentence

A unanimous Georgia Supreme Court decision upheld a lower court's ruling vacating Gregory Walker's death sentence. Walker, 36, Black, was sentenced to death on January 28, 2005 in Camden County for the June 9, 2001, murder of Janeika Aleisa Murphy, 23. The lower court found Walker's attorneys provided "ineffective assistance of counsel" in failing to make the jury aware of details about Walker's life that could have led to him being spared the death penalty. In 2014, a judge upheld his convictions but threw out the death sentence because Walker's trial attorneys didn’t adequately prepare and present mitigating evidence. Today the Georgia Supreme Court justices agreed. The state could seek another sentencing trial.