| Congressional Representative Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Gender:  Posts: 2,369 Country:  Points: 13,298, Level: 75 | Level up: 12%, 352 Points needed |  |  Technically, they can't change is commutation.
He can't be tried again because of double jeopardy.
The USSC did commute all death sentences to life in prison around 1970. That decision has since been changed, and, obviously, capital punishment has gone on since Gary Gilmore in 1977. |