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Convicted Man Faces Death Penalty

DENVER, 8:37 p.m. MST February 14, 2001 -- Lawyers for a former halfway house resident facing the death penalty want a new trial based on newly discovered evidence of their client's alleged treatment as a child.

The death-penalty hearing for Donta Page is set for Feb. 20. A ruling on the motion for a new trial is expected this week.

The 24-year-old Page was convicted last November of first-degree murder in the death of Peyton Tuthill (pictured, right), 24, who lived two doors away from the halfway house where Page had been staying.

Page admitted raping and stabbing Tuthill on February 24, 1999, but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His lawyers argued he was left brain damaged by beatings from his mother.

A Denver District Court jury convicted Page (pictured, left), but a three-judge panel will consider sentencing him to death or life in prison with no chance of parole.

Defense lawyers said documents they recently received from the Children's National Medical Center in Washington prove how brutal his childhood beatings were.


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