USA - Florida. Judge Randell H. Rowe ordered new hearings for Troy Victorino and Jerone Lamar Hunter because death sentences were not unanimous

17 June 2017 :

7th Judicial Circuit Judge Randell H. Rowe III, ordered new hearings for Troy Victorino and Jerone Lamar Hunter because none of the 4 death sentences they each received were based on unanimous recommendations from jurors. Victorino and Hunter were both convicted of 6 counts of 1st-degree murder in 2006 for their parts in what were called "the Xbox murders." They each received 2 life sentences for the murders of 4 separate victims and the death penalty for killing the other victims. Victorino and Hunter, and their 2 co-defendants, Michael Anthony Sala and Robert Anthony Cannon broke into a home in Deltona and beat 4 men and 2 women to death with baseball bats. Many of the victims were also stabbed. Victorino was portrayed by prosecutors as the ringleader in the attacks.

 

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