As Massachusetts braces for the upcoming death penalty trial of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, the state's other death penalty defendant is also heading to trial.
Gary Lee Sampson faces a second sentencing trial with a new jury that will be asked to decide if he should be put to death for carjacking and killing two men in Massachusetts in 2001. Sampson was convicted separately of killing a third man in New Hampshire during the same crime spree.
Sampson's death sentence was overturned by a judge in 2011. Families of Sampson's victims believe his lawyers are trying to delay the sentencing re-trial for as long as possible.
Sampson's trial is scheduled to begin in February, about a month after the trial of marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
