Slow Burn Media and Bill Huffman present Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.

It was a mass murder he swears he never committed. In this case, the judge overrode the jury's recommendation and sentenced

the defendant to death. Tommy Ziegler was sentenced to death by a judge who overruled a jury

in 1976. Now, a judge could do that back then. Today, that's unconstitutional.

They got a conviction. And here I am stuck.

He did say they make a strong argument for new DNA testing that would prove

once and for all whether Tommy Ziegler committed the crimes that sent him to death row.

Yes, my recommendations for future for further DNA testing was concluded in the report.

For one local man who has been on death row for more than 35 years, a hearing today might be his last chance.

Attorneys for Tommy Ziegler say he was not a killer of his wife in-laws and another man, but instead of victim.

It started on Christmas Eve, 1975, when police were called to Ziegler's Furniture Store.

My experience with 1032 perfect practice in law that most judges, in most cases, if a motion to approve the file,

will do it as a matter of course, will eliminate any doubt whether or not a failure.

She complained that one of the jurors was picking the gun,

which was probably occurred.

The jury's got all this stuff there in the evidence room and they're talking,

I mean, in the jury room and they're talking about it.

It was a mass murder.

He swears he never committed.

The only thing I've got is a little bit of breath.

The prosecution never allowed jurors to hear testimony that would have created reasonable doubt.

Hello and welcome to episode 59 of Who Killed?

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