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MET093014 hammer
Front page: The stiry of David Lee Hammer's stay of execution was carried on teh front page of teh June 4, 2004 Tribune-Star. While appeals continue to play out, it appears a federal court in Pennsylvania has re-sentenced David Hammer to life in prison without parole. He was sentenced to death in 1998 after pleading guilty to killing his cellmate two years earlier in the U.S. Penitentiary in Allenwood, Pa. Hammer is on death row in the federal prison at Terre Haute.