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A prosecutor for the state of Alabama was rebuked by the state attorney general for testifying in support of a successful  appeal of a death sentence for a convicted murderer.

Robert Owen, the D.A. in the LaSamuel Gamble case, testified it would be worng to put Gamble to death, when his co-defendant, who actually committed the murder would not be executed. His co-defendant, Marcus Presley, had been sentenced to death also, but had the ruling overturned because he was a minor at the time.

A judge had commuted Gambles punishment to life imprisonment but the attorney general is seeking to get Gamble executed.

Owens says hes had some difficulty with this, hes been a prosecutor for his whole career, but said he couldnt sleep if he let someone die who didnt kill anyone, while he let a murderer live.