NORFOLK
A judge has set a May 25 date for a new sentencing hearing in the federal capital murder case against Richard Thomas Stitt.
A jury will be asked to decide whether Stitt deserves the death penalty for leading a violent Portsmouth drug gang in the 1990s. His first death sentence was overturned and an appeals court ordered a new hearing.
U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson ruled at a hearing this morning that prosecutors will not be allowed to add on evidence that was not presented at Stitt’s 1999 sentencing hearing.
The court has already mailed out 100 questionnaires to potential jurors.
Stitt, 36, remains in federal prison.
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