Casting for a Sentence, No Stone Left Unturned
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DES MOINES, Iowa —
A 54-year-old man convicted of terrorizing his former employer told a judge he was too old to go to prison and asked instead for a public stoning.
But Ellsworth Donald Griffith’s request had one catch, prosecutor Odell McGhee said. Griffith insisted that only those without sin be allowed to cast the stones.
McGhee said Judge Richard Strickler sentenced Griffith to five years in prison Wednesday.
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