Brazil Supreme Court orders retrial for rancher convicted of killing US nun
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Brazil's Supreme Court has annulled the trial of a rancher convicted of ordering the 2005 murder of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang.
The court says in a statement that Vitalmiro Moura was not given enough time to prepare his defense in 2010 when he was sentenced to 30 years in prison . The court says Moura will remain behind bars until he his retried at a yet-to be scheduled date.
Stang was a Dayton, Ohio, native who worked for three decades to preserve the rain forest and defend poor settlers' land rights.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Prosecutors have said that Moura ordered her killing because she blocked him and another rancher from taking over land the government gave to farmers.