A federal judge who previously refused Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s request to drop a decades-old death sentence for a convicted double murderer unless the DA could provide a specific reason has called for a hearing on the evidence⁠—and invited the state Attorney General’s Office to call and cross-examine witnesses.

At issue is the death sentence handed down to Robert Wharton in 1985 following his conviction for murdering a West Philadelphia couple in their home and leaving their infant daughter for dead.

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