Convicted Schuylkill County killer Ronald Champney will get his new trial, but with a jury from Lancaster.

President Judge William E. Baldwin on Feb. 2 granted Champney the change of venue, but will still preside over the trial.Jury selection is scheduled to start on April 27 at the Lancaster County courthouse.Champney, 64, is on death row for the 1992 contract killing of Roy Bensinger, 38, of North Manheim Township.A Schuylkill County jury in November 1999 convicted Champney of killing Bensinger with a single shotgun blast on June 4, 1992, as Bensinger stepped out of his pickup in the driveway of his home.Prosecutors' key witness, David Blickley, was Bensinger's widow's ex-husband, whom Champney said paid for the killing.Champney was scheduled to be executed on Nov. 30, 2004, but a federal judge halted his execution.A Philadelphia group, the Federal Defenders, sought the new trial.In June 2008, Baldwin ruled that errors made by Champney's lawyer, Marsha Chwastiak, likely led to his death sentence, and ordered a new trial.The state Supreme Court in 2013 upheld Baldwin's ruling.