Judge sets March trial date in girl’s slaying

ELKTON, Ky. (AP) — A judge in western Kentucky has set a date for the retrial of a man charged with killing his 9-year-old sister.

The Kentucky New Era (http://bit.ly/1uigAbn) reports Garrett Dye is scheduled to go on trial March 9 in the 2011 fatal beating of his adoptive sister, Amy Dye, at their Todd County home.

A jury convicted Dye of murder, but the Kentucky Supreme Court ordered a new trial after ruling that police coerced a confession from him by repeatedly threatening the then 17-year-old boy with the death penalty. A U.S. Supreme Court decision bars executing anyone who was under the age of 18 when a crime was committed.

The trial judge has ruled that Dye will be tried in Logan County due to pretrial publicity.

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Information from: Kentucky New Era, http://www.kentuckynewera.com

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