More than 23 years after a Harrisburg man was convicted of stabbing a woman and slitting the throat of a 14-month-old baby in front of a police officer, the Pa. Supreme Court has referred his appeal back to Dauphin County Court based on newly discovered information.

Herbert Blakeney, 59, is facing the death penalty for his 2002 convictions in the death of his stepson Basil Blakeney, after police say he broke into his estranged wife’s apartment on Feb. 2, 2000 on North 14 th Street.

Police say Blakeney stabbed and choked unconscious his estranged wife’s roommate, then chased her 13-year-old son out of the apartment with a knife. Blakeney then asked a responding officer to shoot him. When the officer did not, police say Blakeney went into a bedroom, grabbed his estranged wife’s baby from

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