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Dallas man on death row gets fourth trial after re
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Dallas man on death row gets fourth trial after review

Man first sentenced in '75 to have fourth chance in court

Ronald Curtis Chambers, who has been on death row longer than anyone in state history, will receive yet another sentencing trial – his fourth – under an order issued by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ronald Curtis Chambers The U.S. Supreme Court had previously ordered the lower court to review the case because the jury in Mr. Chamber's third death penalty trial may have received faulty instructions before rendering the sentence.

Defense attorneys hope to be able to negotiate a life sentence for the man who murdered 22-year-old Mike McMahan and left Deia Sutton to die in the Trinity River bottom in 1975.

"The important thing to consider is Mr. Chambers' age, as well as the extraordinary expense of seeking another death verdict," said attorney Jordan Steiker, a law professor at the University of Texas.

Mr. Chambers was 20 when he committed the crime and has spent almost 32 years on death row.

"It's hard to imagine that the Dallas taxpayers would want to spend millions more," Mr. Steiker said.

Another attorney for Mr. Chambers, James W. Volberding of Tyler, added, "It seems unfair to put the victim in this case through another trial."

But Ms. Sutton, who now goes by her married name of Roberts, remains resolute about her desire for the death penalty. She has testified against Mr. Chambers in each of his three previous trials.

"I never will be done," she said. "I'm still holding out for the death penalty."

Last year, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins indicated he would pursue the death penalty again if another sentencing trial were ordered. But on Wednesday, spokeswoman Jamille Bradfield said it was "premature for us to comment at this point."

Mr. Chambers was first convicted and sentenced to death in 1975, after he and two accomplices abducted the couple at gunpoint as they were leaving a Dallas nightclub. Ms. Sutton was shot, beaten and choked but managed to survive.

Mr. Chambers was tried a second time 10 years later, after courts determined he was not warned that information from a psychiatric interview could be used against him. Mr. Chambers received a third trial in 1992 after courts determined that jury selection had been racially tainted.

Each time, he was sentenced to death.

Mr. Chambers was scheduled to die last year but received a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court a few days before the date. Several months later, the case was sent back to the 5th Circuit for review because jury instructions in his 1992 trial did not allow jurors to properly consider mitigating factors that might have made the death penalty inappropriate.

The factors include "his exposure to violence and drugs, his lack of role models, and his lack of economic opportunity while being raised in the projects of west Dallas," according to the 5th Circuit ruling.

The faulty jury instructions have since been changed, but some inmates sentenced at that time remain on death row.

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