USA - Georgia. The Georgia Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of Nicholas Jason Bryant

The Georgia Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of Nicholas Jason Bryant. During a May 2004 robbery, Bryant killed Billy Joe Kilgore, 68, and Marie Richards, 36. The jury sentenced Bryant to death for killing Richards, not Kilgore. In Friday's ruling, written by Justice Harold Melton, the court found that the trial judge allowed the state to introduce unconstitutional victim-impact testimony in the sentencing phase. At the 2007 trial, Richards' sister gave "inflammatory" testimony such as how Bryant had shown he could not be a good inmate, Melton wrote. He added that the testimony "resembled a closing argument for the state more than a victim-impact statement."