Gary Lee Sampson

Gary Lee Sampson, the late convicted killer who murdered a Taunton man along with two others in a series of carjackings twenty years ago, has posthumously lost an appeal of his death sentence this week.

Convicted murderer Gary Lee Sampson, who killed a Taunton man and two others in a series of carjackings in 2001, has died in federal prison.

Lawyers for a man who confessed to carjacking and killing two men in Massachusetts and killing a third man in New Hampshire have argued that the federal government should not force the death penalty on Massachusetts, a state that has rejected capital punishment...