Jury selection to begin in death penalty retrial
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Jury selection is set to begin in the sentencing retrial for a man who was sentenced to death in the 2001 carjack killings of two Massachusetts men.
A jury gave Gary Sampson the death penalty in 2003, but that was overturned eight years later by a judge who found that one of the jurors had lied repeatedly about her background.
Sampson pleaded guilty to carjacking and killing 69-year-old Philip McCloskey and 19-year-old Jonathan Rizzo during a weeklong crime rampage in July 2001. The new jury will be asked to decide if Sampson should receive the death penalty or life in prison.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston.
Sampson also was convicted in state court in New Hampshire for killing a third man.