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J. Howell, planned to file legislation classifying sexual assault and torture as capital crimes, as it was discovered that the prosecutors could only seek a death sentence if they could prove George had stolen something from his victim. While awaiting trial, George confessed to his cellmate that he had shot
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papers and numerous photographs of young teenage boys. Later that same day, Sztanko's body was found by police, not far from the location George claimed he had buried Perry in more than a decade prior. The day after, he was transferred to the Prince
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George's execution was rescheduled for 1995, but was delayed yet again after he and his attorneys filed a motion to the
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George denied responsibility for the crime, but an examination of spent shell casings from the pistol recovered from his home conclusively established that it was the murder weapon. As a result, he was indicted for capital murder before a grand jury in August. A delegate following the case, William
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with some friends. Along the way, he was abducted by George and dragged deeper into the forest, where he was handcuffed to a nearby tree. After this, George proceeded to sexually assault and torture
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on the abduction charge. Ebert later claimed that the decision to make the plea deal was made due to the fact that they had no body or witnesses; their sole piece of evidence being George's confessions, and the fact that no case without a body had been successfully prosecuted in
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