FILE - This Aug. 2, 2001, file photo shows Gary Sampson during arraignment in district court in Brockton, Mass. Sampson was sentenced to death in 2003 for the carjack killings of multiple men in 2001, but the sentence was overturned in 2011. A sentencing retrial for Sampson is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, in federal court in Boston. (AP Photo/The Patriot Ledger, Greg Derr, Pool, File) (The Associated Press)
BOSTON – A man who was sentenced to death in the 2001 carjack killings of two Massachusetts men will get another chance to ask a jury to spare his life.
A sentencing retrial for Gary Sampson is scheduled to begin Wednesday in federal court in Boston.
A jury gave Sampson the death penalty in 2003, but that was overturned eight years later by a judge who found that one of the jurors had lied repeatedly about her background.
Sampson pleaded guilty to carjacking and killing 69-year-old Philip McCloskey and 19-year-old Jonathan Rizzo during a weeklong crime rampage in July 2001. Sampson was convicted separately in New Hampshire for killing Robert "Eli" Whitney.
Sampson's retrial is expected to last about three months.
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