Stories Related to Judge Hears Arguments On Whether Convicted Murderer Serving Life In R.i. Can Get Married

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal court judge will now decide if Cody-Allen Zab, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence at the state prison in Rhode Island, can marry college professor Shelby Ferreira.The legal fight centers on the constitutionality of Rhode Island's "civilly dead" law.If a person is sentenced to life in prison in Rhode Island, a century-old state law considers that person “to be dead in all respects, as if his or her natural death had taken [...]

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