By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger Attorneys for accused killer Donald Fell are again asking a judge to declare the death penalty unconstitutional, this time citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding sports gambling. Fell’s lawyers, in their filing seeking […]
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Judge in upcoming Fell trial lets death penalty stand
By Adam Federman, VTDigger.org RUTLAND — In a highly anticipated ruling, U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford has denied a motion by Donald Fell’s defense seeking to declare the Federal Death Penalty Act unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment. The 57-page […]