From [HERE] A Missouri death row inmate testified Wednesday that he was beaten so badly during an interrogation by detectives that he admitted to a role in a horrific crime.

But when an assistant attorney general repeatedly asked Reginald Clemons about details of the 1991 rape and murder of two sisters, Clemons time and again declined to answer, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination. A specially-appointed judge is hearing the case in St. Louis, then will issue a report to the Missouri Supreme Court. Clemons' attorneys are seeking to get his death sentence commuted and also asking for a new trial The civil hearing is expected to wrap up this week, but the Supreme Court likely won't make a decision for several months. The case has drawn attention from death penalty opponents from around the world.

Clemons, now 41, was one of four men convicted in the killings of 20-year-old Julie Kerry and 19-year-old Robin Kerry. Tin April 1991, the sisters and their cousin, Thomas Cummins, were pushed off an abandoned bridge into the Mississippi River in St. Louis. Cummins survived.