Former Death Row inmate pleads guilty in new trial in Homewood woman’s brutal 1990 murder; could be up for parole next year

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Former Death Row inmate pleads guilty in new trial in Homewood woman’s brutal 1990 murder; could be up for parole next year

A man convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in the 1990 slaying of a Homewood woman who was found bound, beaten, raped, and stabbed with her throat slit was granted a new trial but has now pleaded guilty.Steven Alan Petric, 62, was convicted in 2009 in the brutal death of 23-year-old Toni Lim.