Supreme Court of the State of Delaware

DOB: 09/06/1977

Race: White Gender: Male

Offense: Murder 1st

Sentenced to Death: 08/18/1997

Date of Offense: 04/26/1996

Killed Joseph S. Hammond of New Castle, a 59-year old gas station attendant, during a botched robbery attempt in April 1996.

Death row inmate's appeal denied

By Associated Press

March 11, 2010

The Delaware Supreme Court has sent an appeal from a death row inmate back to a lower court. In an opinion issued Tuesday, the justices did not overturn Craig Zebroski's conviction or death sentence. But they did order the Superior Court to determine whether his claims of ineffective counsel satisfied exceptions to procedural rules under which they otherwise were barred.

The lower court ruled last year that the claims made by Zebroski in 2008 had been considered in a previous appeal and did not warrant further review. But the Supreme Court said the lower court failed to adequately explain its reasoning. Zebroski was sentenced to death for killing a gas station attendant in a 1996 robbery.