FLORIDA JURY URGES DEATH FOR CROSS-COUNTRY KILLER.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A jury recommended Friday the death penalty for a man convicted of stabbing stab v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs v.tr. 1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something. 3. a Florida woman to death as part of a cross-country killing spree that left a Van Nuys woman dead. Jurors who convicted Glen Rogers, an ex-carnival worker, earlier this week took just three hours to reach the conclusion today that Rogers should die for the November 1995 slaying of Tina Marie Cribbs, 34. The jury said it voted 12-0 for death. A simple majority vote would have delivered the same verdict. Rogers also is accused of killing Sandra Gallagher, who had gone out to celebrate a $1,000 Keno win, after coaxing her into giving him a ride home from McRed's Lounge in Van Nuys. State Circuit Judge Diana Allen has the final decision. She set sentencing for June 20. Under Florida law The jurisprudence of this state offers major differences from doctrines prevailing in the United States at either the federal level or that of the various states. Homestead exemption from forced sale, the dangerous instrumentality doctrine, the right to privacy, and the Williams , there are only two sentences possible for first-degree murder: execution or life in prison with no parole parole (pərōl`), in criminal law, release from prison of a convict before the expiration of his term on condition that his activities be restricted and that he report regularly to an officer. . Prosecutor prosecutor Government attorney who presents the state's case against the defendant in a criminal prosecution. In some countries (France, Japan), public prosecution is carried out by a single office. In the U.S., states and counties have their own prosecutors. Karen Cox had urged jurors to recommend the death penalty, saying ``the hands that twisted that knife are the hands of evil.'' |
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