Former death row inmate heads back to prison
Last Update: 6/22/2004 2:16:25 PM

(Tampa-AP) -- A man who spent 16 years on Florida's death row is headed back to prison, this time for two years.

Rudolph Holton pleaded guilty yesterday in Tampa to aggravated battery. It's for beating his wife with a golf club. Circuit Judge Anthony Black responded with a two-year prison term.

Holton was freed from death row early last year. He had been sent there for the 1986 beating death of a teenage girl at a Tampa crack house. But two of the key witnesses against him later admitted they had lied at his trial.

Holton got married last August. He was arrested for beating his wife last December, and has been behind bars ever since.

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