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Life in Indiana

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Somehow we missed a decision for life for Zolo Agona Azania in Indiana in one of that state’s highest profile capital cases. From the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette: After years of wrangling over whether he would be executed for the 1981 murder of a Gary police officer and days before a jury would again consider his fate, prosecutors Friday dropped the death penalty against Zolo Agona Azania. Beginning Monday, an Allen County jury and a Marion County judge were to hear Lake County prosecutors present evidence as to why Azania, 54, should be put to death for killing Gary Police Lt. George Yaros in a botched bank robbery, a crime for which he was first convicted in 1982. The case moved to Allen County long ago because of pretrial publicity in Gary...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).