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Richard Baumhammers, in September 2011, is escorted into court by sheriff’s deputies for his appeal at the Allegheny County Courthouse.
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Twenty years ago this month, a jury in Western Pennsylvania had an important question to answer: should Richard Baumhammers be put to death for what he did?
“Sentencing someone to death, that’s not an easy decision,” said Ron Frew on a recent rainy day in May. Frew, 67, lives in the same Monroeville home he did when he was called to serve as jury foreman for the Baumhammers trial.
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A Superior Court ruling on Thursday upheld a sentence of 15 to 30 years in prison for a convicted Penn Hills man that wounded three people after opening fire in the Monroeville Mall in 2015.
Tarod Thornhill, now 23, will serve his original punishment of 15 to 30 years in prison, a decision from the Superior Court said. The sentence is based on Thornhill’s conviction of three counts of aggravated assault, four counts of recklessly endangering another person, possession of a firearm by a minor and carrying a firearm without a license.
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