A Delaware Superior Court judge has ruled that convicted murderer Steven Shelton should be removed from death row. The judge is set to resentence him later this fall on lesser charges connected to the crime after it was revealed the state’s star witness against Shelton was tainted and may not have been competent to testify.
Shelton pleaded guilty July 26 to second-degree murder, first-degree robbery and conspiracy in the murder of Wilson Mannon Jr. In exchange, the prosecutors dropped their attempts to prevent his 1993 first-degree murder conviction and death sentence from being overturned.
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