Michael Ross
About the author: Michael Ross, #127404, is an inmate at the correctional institute in Somers, Connecticut. He was convicted in 1987 of capital felony murder in the deaths of five teenage girls and a twenty-three-year-old woman and was given six death sentences and two life sentences. After appeals, the state Supreme Court in 1994 upheld the convictions but overturned the death sentences because the judge had acted improperly by excluding evidence regarding Ross's mental condition. Since then, Ross has said he wants to avoid going through another penalty phase and to spare the victims' families another trial. He has told prosecutors he is willing to "go into the courtroom and admit to my actions, to accept responsibility for my actions and to accept the death penalty as punishment for those actions." He still believes the death penalty is wrong.
When the Supreme Court lifted.....
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