Defense uses Wiggins' childhood to argue against death penalty in Polk County triple homicide case

The defense tried to mitigate Tony “TJ” Wiggins' sentence by bringing up his past, while the prosecution used its own expert testimony to rebut the claim that not everyone who has a harsh childhood faces developmental issues on the second day of the penalty phase.

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