Friday, February 26, 2010
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A judge has indefinitely delayed the execution of an unemployed white immigration attorney responsible for a Pittsburgh-area shooting rampage that eventually left six people dead.
Richard Baumhammers, 44, of Mount Lebanon, was scheduled to be executed March 18. But Judge Jeffrey Manning of Allegheny County Common Pleas Court stayed that execution Friday after Baumhammers’ attorney filed notice of a new appeal.
Gov. Ed Rendell signed a death warrant in January.
Baumhammers shot his Jewish neighbor, two Indian men, a Chinese man, a Vietnamese man, and a black man on April 28, 2000.
He was sentenced to death for the five victims who died outright. The sixth victim, 32-year-old Sandip Patel, of Plum, was left paralyzed and died of complications from pneumonia in 2007.