Death Sentence Vacated for Man Who Threw Children Off Bridge

Lam Luong is escorted into Mobile County District Court Judge Charles McKnight's court room at Mobile Government Plaza in Mobile, Ala. Lam Luong, convicted of killing four children by throwing them off a bridge, had his death sentence reduced by a judge on Oct. 15, 2018. Bill Starling/Press-Register via AP

MOBILE, Ala.—An Alabama man convicted of killing four children by throwing them off a bridge had his death sentence reduced by a judge on Oct. 15, to life imprisonment, after tests showed the man had an IQ of 51.

The state attorney general’s office and defense lawyers jointly asked the judge to change Lam Luong’s sentence to life imprisonment without parole after agreeing that new IQ tests showed he is intellectually disabled.