LARGO — Pinellas Judge Nancy Moate Ley looked into the gallery at the back of her courtroom Monday afternoon and set her eyes on the family of a murdered man.
"In the long run," she told them, "I may have saved you some pain by making this decision."
Ley had overridden a jury's recommendation and sentenced a convicted murderer to life in prison without parole instead of to death row.

Pinellas judge rejects death sentence for Saintel in Durango's Steakhouse murder - St. Petersburg Times

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