Opinion: Carlie Brucia's killer will always belong 'in a cage'
Opinion: Carlie Brucia’s killer will always belong ‘in a cage’ Due to a series of complex court rulings, Joseph Smith is expected to receive a resentencing hearing. Joseph Smith may actually stare death row in the face and live to tell about it. Not that Smith will ever be released from prison for abducting, raping and murdering 11-year-old Carlie Brucia on Super Bowl night in 2004. That will never happen. But because of a series of complex state Supreme Court rulings, he is expected to receive a resentencing hearing, one that could relieve him from the death penalty and give him life i...