Friday, September 28, 2012
Associated Press
CLEVELAND
An Ohio man sentenced to death for killing 11 women whose remains were found in and around his Cleveland home is now challenging his conviction.
WEWS-TV reported Thursday that lawyers for Anthony Sowell of Cleveland filed a petition to have his conviction overturned and win a new trial.
Such filings are common for those sentenced to the death penalty and often are turned down.
Prosecutors said Sowell, who was convicted last year of killing 11 women, lured the victims to his home by promising them alcohol or drugs.
The murdered women began vanishing in 2007. Police discovered 10 bodies and a skull at Sowell’s house in late 2009 after officers went there on a woman’s report that she had been raped at the home.