Scott Peterson has been released from death row two years after his death sentence was overturned for murdering his pregnant wife

A murderous husband who killed his pregnant wife has been walked off death row two years after his death sentence was overturned.

Scott Peterson killed 27-year-old Lassie Peterson and their unborn son, Conner Christmas On the eve of 2002 in a case that shocked the nation.

He was transferred from death row at San Quentin State Prison, north of San Francisco, last week. CaliforniaThe Supreme Court of the Russian Federation canceled the sentence in August 2020.

A new photo of Peterson was released Friday, showing him with a short beard, compared to his previous clean-shaven look.

Peterson, 50, was taken to Mule Creek State Prison, east of Sacramento, which has “segregation yards” designed to house “high-profile” inmates.

His death sentence was overturned after the California Superior Court ruled that potential jurors were improperly dismissed.

They were barred from the case because they said they personally disagreed with the death penalty, but were willing to abide by the law and apply it.

The judge made “clear and significant errors” in jury selection, which meant Peterson did not receive a fair trial.

Now, a state judge is also considering whether Peterson deserves a new trial after judges separately said his jury may have been tainted by a biased juror who was obsessed with the killer.

After his wife’s murder, Peterson’s husband searched for her for months, but was arrested after Lachie’s badly decomposed body and their son’s fetus washed ashore in San Francisco in April 2003.

Peterson with his wife Laci. He led the search for her after she disappeared before he was arrested when her body washed ashore in San Francisco in 2003.

Jurors were told how he had a masseuse lover, Amber Frey. Frey didn’t know Peterson was married when they first started dating.

Peterson, who is also said to have feared becoming a father, maintains his innocence and claims Lachie was killed after the break-in.

He has been on death row since 2005. After the death sentence was overturned, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Peterson’s attorneys are now seeking to have the murder charge dismissed entirely.

A juror who helped convict him admitted in court earlier this year that she sent him 17 letters – including one sent from a psychiatric ward.

Richelle Nice’s involvement in Peterson’s conviction is at the center of the retrial application.

She also allegedly omitted important details about her past as a victim of domestic violence during jury selection.

Nice testified in court in February that she wrote more than a dozen letters to Peterson after she helped convict him.

Nice, who had testified with impunity, began writing to Peterson after he was sent to death row.

Jurors were told that Peterson had a lover, Amber Frey (pictured with Peterson), and was allegedly afraid of becoming a father.

Peterson’s lover, Amber Frey (pictured), published a book about the murder case

Peterson’s lawyers are now hoping to have his murder conviction completely overturned and claim that Richelle Nice (pictured), nicknamed ‘Strawberry Pie’, was ‘prejudiced’.

For his conviction to be overturned, Peterson’s attorneys must prove to a judge that Nitz engaged in misconduct and did so “with prejudice to conviction.”

Peterson’s attorneys argued Nees, nicknamed “Strawberry Pie” because of her dyed red hair, lied ahead of trial when she answered a jury selection question about whether she or her associates had ever witnessed a crime or victims of crime.

Peterson was largely held at San Quentin during the months-long hearing process before his death sentence was overturned, in part to give him better access to his lawyers.

Plans are currently underway to close San Quentin’s death row, the largest in the United States, and turn it into a “positive, healing environment.”

The prisoners will be sent to other maximum security prisons.