PITTSBURGH — A man on death row for a racially motivated shooting spree in suburban Pittsburgh that eventually left six people dead is appealing his sentence.

Forty-two-year-old Richard Baumhammers was an unemployed attorney living in his parents' home in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mount Lebanon on April 28, 2000, when he shot his Jewish neighbor, two Indian men, two men of Asian descent and a black man.

Prosecutors maintained Baumhammers, who is white, selected his victims because of their religious or ethnic background. Five victims died and a sixth victim left paralyzed died in February 2007.

The state Supreme Court will hear the appeal Wednesday.

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Two of the three men charged in the fatal beating of a Kutztown University student are asking for a jury from outside of Berks County.Attorneys for 23-year-old Timothy Gearhart and 21-year-old Kenneth Kline filed petitions Tuesday because the case has drawn much media coverage.They are accused of beating 19-year-old sophomore Kyle Quinn of Warminster about 2 a.m. Sept. 7 just a few blocks from the KU campus.