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In fact, as it later turned out, both men cheated the executioner, Heim said.
Not long after their trials, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned death penalty laws throughout the nation, and those who were then on death row saw their sentences commuted to life in prison.
But life in prison, in those days, was not necessarily a life sentence. While Colorado has since reestablished the death penalty and now also provides for a sentence of life in prison without parole, in 1976, things were different. Back then, a life sentence was calculated to run roughly 10 years. Corbett and Glenn both saw their sentences commuted to consecutive life terms.
The upshot is that both men could soon be paroled.
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In fact, Glenn has his first meeting with the parole board in July 2006, and Corbett has already faced his first parole hearing, in 1999. He lost his bid for freedom, based in part on the efforts of both Lou Smit and Robert Russel. And when he comes up for parole again in the next few years, Russel and Smit will be there again. "Bob and I are going to fight it," Smit said.
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