Dumfries killer asks court to overturn death sentence

Published June 9, 2010 4:00am ET



Lawyers for a Virginia death row inmate asked the state’s Supreme Court to overturn his sentence because a juror’s co-workers urged her to sentence him to death, the Associated Press reports.

Joshua Andrews, 27, was convicted in a 2002 killing spree in which he forced three men to undress and get into bathtub in a Dumfries apartment, then shot them. Two died. Andrews and another man fled to New York, where they shot two more people.

In 2007, during a break in the sentencing, a juror returned to her D.C. law firm office where she was urged by her boss and co-worker to vote to execute Andrews.

— Scott McCabe