USA: Arizona set to kill man failed by trial lawyer

Jeffrey Landrigan, a 50-year-old Native American man, is due to be executed in Arizona, USA, at 10am on 26 October 2010. Thirteen federal judges have argued that he should have had a hearing into his claim that he was inadequately represented at his 1990 trial. In 2007, the trial judge said that she would not have passed a death sentence if she had heard the mitigating evidence.

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