Dillon Carr Tribune-Review Richard Baumhammers, in September 2011, is escorted into court by sheriff’s deputies for his appeal at the Allegheny County Courthouse. Dillon Carr | Tribune-Review
TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. 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.