Convicted Murderer Scott Peterson Spared Death Penalty by California Supreme Court

Convicted Murderer Scott Peterson Spared Death Penalty by California Supreme Court
Scott Peterson in a booking photo. Modesto Police Department
Jack Phillips
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Convicted killer Scott Peterson’s death penalty sentence was reversed by the California Supreme Court on Monday over his 2004 murder conviction of his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner.

The move comes more than 15 years after Laci, of Modesto, was killed. Authorities determined that Peterson dumped his wife’s body from a fishing boat into the San Francisco Bay in 2002 before her remains washed ashore in April 2003.

Jack Phillips
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