USA - Oregon. Gregory Allen Bowen was sentenced to death a 2nd time

Gregory Allen Bowen, who has been on death row 7 years for the Dec. 29, 2001 murder of 76-year-old Don Palmer Christiansen, was sentenced to death a 2nd time. for that murder. Bowen, now 56, was convicted on April 2, 2003, by a Curry County Circuit Court jury of 2 counts of aggravated murder and  of intentional murder. The jury then on April 17, 2003, retuned an unanimous decision to invoke the death penalty. (see April 20, 2003). The conviction was appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court, which in 2006 upheld the death sentence but sent the case back to Curry County saying that the 2 convictions of aggravated murder with sentences of death and his conviction for intentional murder should be merged into 1 conviction.