The Nation - News from April 2, 1987
The Supreme Court was urged to reinstate the death sentence of John Harvey Adamson for murdering newspaper reporter Don Bolles in Arizona in 1976. William J. Schafer of the Arizona attorney general’s office said Adamson--initially given a 20-year prison sentence--properly was resentenced to death after the defendant broke an agreement to testify against others allegedly involved in the case. But Adamson’s lawyer, Timothy K. Ford, said the death sentence violated his client’s double jeopardy rights against being tried twice for the same crime.
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