Facts of the Crime:
On September 20, 1991, Michael Conforti was sentenced to death in Wayne County after being convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree, kidnapping, rape, criminal conspiracy to commit murder, criminal conspiracy to commit rape and criminal conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
Conforti was sent to death row after being convicted in Wayne County of raping and stabbing to death Kathleen Harbison in December 1990. The 22-year-old woman was from Blooming Grove Township.
Conforti's co-conspirator, James Bellman III, 32, pleaded guilty to similar charges and later killed himself in prison.
Conforti and Bellman kidnapped Harbison outside a bar and raped and killed her.
The victim's body was found on December 21, 1990, in a wooded area near Gouldsboro. She had been stabbed 12 times. There was evidence that Harbison's wrists and ankles had been bound by handcuffs.
On May 27, 1993, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed his death sentence on direct appeal.
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