The man who killed two British tourists in 2011 will get a new hearing that could spare him his original sentence of life in prison.
The Herald-Tribune reports the Florida Second District Court of Appeal released an opinion overturning the sentence of Shawn Tyson. The court did uphold Tyson's convictions.
Tyson was 16 when he fatally shot 25-year-old James Cooper and 24-year-old James Kouzaris when they wandered into north Sarasota after a night of drinking downtown, a crime that attracted extensive media coverage in Britain.
Tyson was found guilty of first-degree murder in both deaths and sentenced to life in prison.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that juveniles cannot automatically be given life in prison without parole for homicide offenses because it's cruel and unusual punishment.
