Court orders new look at death sentence in Newport Inn case

YOUNGSTOWN

A three-judge panel of the 7th District Court of Appeals has unanimously reversed the death sentence for Willie S. Herring in the April 30, 1996, shooting deaths of three people in a robbery at the Newport Inn.

The panel ruled Friday that Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court must conduct a new sentencing hearing, in which “a jury shall be impaneled to consider whether to once again impose the death penalty or to instead impose life in prison.”

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