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Life Sentence for Brian Nichols

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, "Brian Nichols avoids death sentence."Brian Nichols will at most spend the rest of his life in prison, spared a death sentence by hopelessly deadlocked Fulton County jurors who had convicted him for the March 11, 2005, courthouse shootings.Judge James Bodiford said he would decide Saturday whether Nichols would get life or life with no possibility of parole. The panel?s 9-3 vote split, with the majority in favor of Nichols dying by injection for killing four people in the rampage that terrorized Atlanta, shook Georgia?s judicial system, cost taxpayers millions of dollars and left the death penalty in doubt in Fulton County.It was not known if the three holdouts included any of the three jurors who indicated before they were chosen for the case that they had misgivings about the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 13, 2008 (boomark / email).