By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org
Armando Barron, the Jaffrey man who murdered Keene’s Jonathan Amerault before forcing his wife to cut off the victim’s head, wants his murder conviction overturned, partly because he wanted Amerault’s pleas for his life moments before he was killed kept from the jury.
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