RIO DE JANEIRO - The gunman who confessed and was convicted of killing U.S. nun and Amazon rain forest activist Dorothy Stang has waived his right to a new trial.
State prosecutor Edson Souza says an attorney for Rayfran das Neves Sales told a judge Thursday as the new trial was opening that Sales wanted to halt the proceedings.
Stang was killed in the heart of the Amazon in 2005. The Dayton, Ohio-native worked for three decades in Brazil, defending the poor against powerful ranchers in land rights issues.
Sales was first convicted and sentenced to 27 years in 2005.
Still awaiting trial are two ranchers prosecutors accuse of ordering Stang's murder. Souza says they are expected to stand trial in the first half of next year.
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