A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in an Iowa prison argued his sentence had expired after his heart stopped momentarily and therefore he was technically 'dead.'
Benjamin Schreiber, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the mid-1990s for clubbing a man to death with the handle of a pickaxe, claimed he had successfully fulfilled his life sentence as a result after he died momentarily in hospital but was resuscitated back to life.
In 2015, Schreiber developed kidney stones and began suffering from septic poisoning, according to CNN.
