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Three years ago, a jury found former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of an 18-year-old Cambridge hotel cook. Now, with that verdict thrown out, Pring-Wilson has another chance to prove his innocence.
On Oct. 14, 2004, a jury found former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of an 18-year-old Cambridge hotel cook. Now, with that verdict thrown out and the commencement of his second trial yesterday, Pring-Wilson has another chance to prove...
Pring-Wilson Found Guilty (Oct. 15, 2004): After a month-long trial and 21 hours of deliberation, a jury convicts former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson of voluntary manslaughter.
Public Divided on Pring-Wilson Verdict (Oct. 15, 2004) The trial of Alexander Pring-Wilson ends with the conviction of the ex-Harvard grad student for voluntary manslaughter, but in the court of public opinion, the jury is still hung.
That attitude led to quite a few excesses. Ten years ago, when a malfunctioning electric chair caused a prisoner's leather mask to burst into flames during his execution, Florida's Democratic Attorney General Robert Butterworth joked that the problems with "Old Sparky" - the chair's nickname - were actually a...