DEATH PENALTY URGED FOR CARO DEFENSE ASKS JURORS TO SPARE CONVICTED-MURDERER MOM.Byline: Sabrina Decker Staff Writer Prosecutors urged jurors Thursday to punish Soccoro ``Cora'' Caro with the death penalty for murdering her three sons, even as defense attorneys made an impassioned plea to spare her life. During the closing day of arguments in the penalty phase of her trial, Caro sat silently between her attorneys as prosecutors played endearing en·dear·ing adj. Inspiring affection or warm sympathy: the endearing charm of a little child. en·dear home videos of her young sons, then grisly gris·ly adj. gris·li·er, gris·li·est Inspiring repugnance; gruesome. See Synonyms at ghastly. [Middle English grisli, from Old English grisl pictures of their slain bodies. ``You already know what the right thing to do is in this case,'' Deputy District Attorney Cherly Temple told jurors. ``The hard thing is going to be to do it.'' Temple urged jurors to put aside their sympathy for Caro, who was found guilty of killing her sons - ages 11, 8, and 5 - as they slept Nov. 22, 1999. ``But when you think of tears, shed tears for Joey Caro, for Michael, for Christopher - three little boys who will never get to grow up,'' Temple said. Temple played down defense claims that Caro was depressed and influenced by the alcohol and prescription drugs prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, she had ingested in·gest tr.v. in·gest·ed, in·gest·ing, in·gests 1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. See Synonyms at eat. 2. the night of the murders. Instead, Temple argued, Caro committed a single, severe act of violence, after a history of smaller violent outbursts, when her doctor-husband walked out on her. ``You know what kind of person she is, and you know she was trying to hurt Dr. Caro that night,'' Temple said. Defense attorneys - who initially claimed that Dr. Xavier Caro had killed his sons, then framed his wife - told jurors Thursday that Caro was a good mother who lost control through a combination of drugs and alcohol, and an overriding depressive disorder depressive disorder Psychiatry Any of a number of conditions characterized by one or more depressive episodes–major DD, depressed mood–dysthymic disorder and adjustment disorder with depressed mood, and those that do not fit the criteria of other . ``We don't want passion, and we don't want tears, what we want is for you to look at the evidence,'' said Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Nick Beeson. ``She tried her best in this world to cope. She tried so hard.'' |
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