WASHINGTON — The state of Florida is asking the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States to reject a former Maine man’s request for the justices to hear his death sentence appeal.
Lawyers representing Michael Woodbury, the Conway Army Barracks killer who went on to murder a fellow inmate in Florida, have taken the appeal of his death sentence all the way to the Supreme Court.
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