Gary Lee Sampson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American murderer
Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1959
Place of Birth: Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Profession: spree killer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Gary Lee Sampson
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- Sampson (born September 29, 1959) is an American murderer who killed three people and was sentenced to death by a federal jury in Massachusetts, United States. During three days in 2001, Sampson killed three strangers: retiree Philip McCloskey in Marshfield, Massachusetts, college student Jonathan Rizzo in Abington, Massachusetts, and Robert Whitney in Meredith, New Hampshire.
- He also attempted to kill a fourth victim and stranger: William Gregory, in Vermont.
- Sampson killed McCloskey and Rizzo after they picked him up hitch-hiking, beating them to death.
- Shortly after that he strangled Whitney.
- Sampson pleaded guilty to the three killings on September 9, 2003, and was sentenced to death on December 23, 2003, by a federal jury in Massachusetts.
- He received the death penalty for the two Massachusetts killings, and a life sentence for the New Hampshire case.After Sampson pleaded guilty, a federal jury decided whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.
- The defense introduced mental health experts to testify that Sampson had dyslexia as a child, had bipolar disorder, and "suffered from a significant mental impairment" during the killings.
- A psychiatrist called by the government testified that Sampson did not suffer from any mitigating mental impairment; he was intelligent but violent and deeply antisocial, with antisocial personality disorder.
- The jury of 12 unanimously returned a sentence of death. In 2011, Sampson's death sentence was thrown out due to juror misconduct, and he was scheduled for a second sentencing trial on September 16, 2015.
- He was again sentenced to death on January 9, 2017.
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