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US man convicted of murder says life term completed when he briefly 'died'
Benjamin Schreiber says 2015 ‘death’ when heart stopped means life sentence should be considered served – but judges disagreeAn Iowa prisoner serving a life sentence argued he had paid his debt to society – after “dying” momentarily in hospital.Benjamin Schreiber was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1996, after he clubbed a man to death with the handle of a pickax and left his body outside a trailer, the Des Moines Register reported. He had conspired with the man’s girlfriend to murder him. Continue reading...