USA - Georgia. The Georgia Supreme Court has overturned the death sentences of Kim McMichen

The Georgia Supreme Court has returned a death penalty case to a lower court, asking it to determine whether perjured testimony was presented at the trial. The case involves Kim McMichen, 51, white, who was convicted in 1993 of the November 16, 1990 killings of his estranged wife Luan McMichen and her boyfriend Jeff Robinson. He was given the death penalty for each of the two counts of murder. The court said that while a jailhouse snitch said at McMichen's trial that he had been promised nothing for his testimony, he reversed his position at the appeal hearing. The high court said that testimony could have affected the outcome of the case.