Top US court to judge death sentence for neo-Nazi

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to take a new look at whether a neo-Nazi convicted of murdering three men should be sentenced to death.

The justices said they will hear in arguments scheduled for late this year the plea from the state of Ohio to reinstate the death sentence against Frank Spisak.

Spisak, a self-described neo-Nazi, was convicted in the shooting deaths of the three men at the Cleveland State University campus over a seven-month period in 1982.

The federal appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio, twice has ordered new sentencing hearings for Spisak, saying he received ineffective counsel during the sentencing phase of his trial and a …