Gary Lee Sampson

A Boston federal appeals court ruled Tuesday against vacating the death sentence and murder convictions of a man who died in prison while appealing his death sentence. Gary Lee Sampson confessed to killing three men during a weeklong crime spree in 2001. He pleaded guilty in federal court to two of the murders, in which he carjacked his victims, took…

A federal appeals court is considering whether to vacate the murder convictions of a man who died in prison while appealing his death sentence for brutally killing three men in New England more than 20 years ago.

The man who killed three people in a 2001 spree across Massachusetts and New Hampshire has died in a federal prison medical center.

A drifter convicted of killing three men in a spree across New England in 2001 has died in prison, federal records show.

Gary Lee Sampson was formally sentenced to death after his January re-trial.