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APWlRf PHOTO Jim ColeIn this June 1, 2004 file photo, Gary Lee Sampson, center, is escorted into Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua, N.H.Convicted killer seeks to bar death penaltyBOSTON (AP) - A manwho was sentenced to death, then given a reprieve in two Massachusetts killings plans to ask a judge to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty a second time.Gary Lee Sampsons lawyers filed a list of motions they intend to file or are thinkingabout filing before Sampson has a second sentencing trial in February.4Sampson pleaded guilty in the 2001 carjackings and killings of two Massachusetts men and was later sentenced to death. That sentenced was overturned in 2011 after a judge found a juror had liedabout her background.Sampsons lawyers say they are likely to argue more than two dozen reasons to bar the death penalty in Sampsons case, including the fact that Massachusetts has no state death penalty. Sampson was prosecuted under the federal death penalty statute.
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