Scott Peterson has been moved off demise row greater than two years after the California Supreme Court docket overturned his demise sentence for killing his pregnant spouse twenty years in the past, corrections officers stated Monday.
Peterson was moved final week from San Quentin State Jail, north of San Francisco, to Mule Creek State Jail, east of Sacramento. A brand new mug shot taken Friday reveals Peterson, 50, with salt-and-pepper stubble in contrast together with his earlier clean-shaven look.
Jurors imposed the demise penalty after convicting Peterson of the first-degree homicide of Laci Peterson, 27, and second-degree homicide of the child she was pregnant with, after dumping her physique into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002.
The state’s excessive court docket overturned that sentence in August 2020 after discovering that potential jurors have been improperly dismissed for saying they personally disagreed with the demise penalty however can be keen to comply with the regulation and impose it.
A state decide is now contemplating if Peterson deserves a brand new trial after the justices individually stated his jury could have been tainted by a biased juror.
Peterson was primarily saved at San Quentin throughout that monthslong listening to course of partly so he would have higher entry to his attorneys.
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