By MaryClaire Dale, NBCPhilidelphia.com
A Philadelphia judge has halted Wednesday's scheduled execution of death-row inmate Terrance "Terry" Williams and granted him a new sentencing hearing.
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Judge M. Teresa Sarmina said Friday prosecutors suppressed evidence that Williams' victim was an alleged pedophile who abused boys, including Williams.
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However, Sarmina upheld Williams' first-degree murder conviction.
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Terrance Williams is shown in this undated Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' photo.
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Williams' lawyers say police and prosecutors withheld evidence about the sexual link between him and victim Amos Norwood, so the jury never heard about it before voting for a death sentence.?
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Philadelphia prosecutors deny any wrongdoing in the 1986 trial.
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Williams would be the first person executed involuntarily in Pennsylvania since 1962.?
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