MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama man convicted of killing four children by throwing them off a bridge had his death sentence reduced by a judge Monday to life imprisonment, after tests showed the man had an IQ of 51. Luong was initially sentenced to death in 2009 for driving the four children to the Dauphin Island bridge in coastal Alabama and throwing them into the Mississippi Sound. Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich, in an emotional news conference, expressed her frustration in the change of sentence. No one deserves the death penalty more than the man who on Jan. 7, 2008 — who lived a normal life and no signs of below average IQ — and cold and calculatedly threw his four children off the Dauphin Island bridge,” Rich said. An expert then hired by the state to evaluate Luong found he had an intelligence quotient of 51.

Source: National Post October 15, 2018 18:20 UTC