USA - Kentucky. Hugh Marlowe, a former death row inmate, pleaded guilty and received 55 years in prison

Hugh Marlowe, a former death row inmate, pleaded guilty and received 55 years in prison. Marlowe spent 19 years on death row before his sentence was overturned in August 2001. One of the reasons presented was ineffective counsel for the defense. The decision was appealed but upheld on June 21, 2007 (see). Marlowe accepted the deal in the Nov. 13, 1981 death of 78-year-old Henry Hamblin. He had been sentenced to death in 1982. The deal came after nearly a year of legal wrangling that promted Special Judge Cletus Maricle to set an Oct. 3 deadline for prosecutors and Marlowe's attorneys to reach a deal.