Albert Tomei, Judge Who Doomed New York Executions, Dies at 77
He ruled in 1997 that a law reinstating the capital punishment had prodded defendants to plead guilty rather than risk a death sentence by going to trial.
Albert Tomei, Judge Who Doomed New York Executions, Dies at 77
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