USA - Mississippi. Alan Michael Rubenstein has been resentenced to life in prison

Alan Michael Rubenstein has been resentenced to life in prison for murdering his stepson, the stepson's wife and their 4-year-old daughter to cash in on an insurance policy. Rubenstein was convicted in 2000 of the slayings of Darrell Perry, 24, Perry's 20-year-old wife Annie and their 4-year-old daughter Krystal. Prosecutors said Rubenstein, 61, wanted $250,000 in life insurance so he killed the family in November 1993. District Attorney Dee Bates told Pike County Judge Mike Taylor he did not want to try the case again in hopes or having the death penalty reinstated. Rubenstein was given the new sentence of three consecutive life terms. In 2006 the Mississippi Supreme Court had tossed out the death penalty, saying the original trial judge failed to properly instruct the jury on sentencing options. The jurors were only told they could sentence Rubenstein to death or a life sentence. They were not told about the option of life without parole, the Supreme Court said.