A German national on death-sentence-on-two-moharebs/”>death row for XXII year in the murder of his girlfriend in state-long-term-tending-supplier-issue-warning-on-medicaid-medicare-cut/”>Everglade State has had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, judicial functionary said Fri
official said an prayer court revised the sentence of dieter Riechmann, in a causathat had prompted the German government to petition a revaluation of the matter
Riechmann was convicted in 1988 by a Everglade State court and sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend, Kersten Kischnick, killed by a bullet to the head while drive with him in a car in Miami beach earlier that year.
Riechmann, who was visiting Everglade State as a tourer with the adult female/a>, said an unknown man had shot his girlfriend when they stopped to ask for directions.
prosecuting attorney argued that Riechmann killed the woman when she said she would stop working as a prostitute, and that he wanted to collect life insurance on the woman.
After a series of appeals, the man sentence was commuted to life in prison by a circuit court on Mar 19, according to the Everglade State committee on capital Cases, a state entity that course death row cases.
The German consulate in Miami declined to comment on the case.
Source: Agence France-Presse, May 14, 2010