DRY RIDGE, Ky. — A recent court ruling overturning the capital murder conviction of Eugene W. Gall Jr. has reopened emotional wounds for a retired Kentucky State Police trooper also shot by Mr. Gall 22 years ago.

        Gary Carey said he still relives the moment on April 5, 1978, when Mr. Gall shot him twice in the chest and left him for dead.

        “I tried to put this out of my mind, but of course I never can,” Mr. Carey said in a published interview Friday.

        Police were chasing Mr. Gall as a suspect in a grocery store robbery in Gardnersville. They apprehended him at a used car lot in Dry Ridge.

        Later, officers discovered the body of Lisa Jansen, 12, whom Mr. Gall raped and murdered earlier that day. His death sentence and murder conviction was overturned by the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Oct. 30.

        “All these bleeding hearts out there who feel so bad about Eugene Gall, and don't think that he's been treated fair, maybe need to lose a 12-year-old daughter like Mr. and Mrs. Jansen did, and see if they still feel that way,” Mr. Carey said.

        The court voted 2-1 to throw out Mr. Gall's conviction, arguing he was improperly convicted because Kentucky failed to counter a psychologist's testimony that he was legally insane when the suburban Cincinnati girl was killed.

        Mr. Gall, 54, from Hillsboro, Ohio, has been awaiting execution longer than any other prisoner on death row in Eddyville, Ky.

        Mr. Carey, 49, still carries tiny pieces of a bullet and shards of an ink pen that was driven into his lung during the shooting that cause him chronic pain.

        Mr. Gall could be sent to a mental institution.

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