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Kan. Prosecutors to Seek Death PenaltyBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: August 1, 2007Filed at 5:11 p.m. ETOLATHE, Kan. (AP) -- Prosecutors said Wednesday they plan to seek the death penalty for a man accused of kidnapping an 18-year-old woman from a store parking lot, then raping and strangling her.Edwin R. Hall was indicted Tuesday on charges of kidnapping, rape, aggravated sodomy and capital murder in the slaying of Kelsey Smith in June, Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline said.Hall, 26, is accused of abducting Smith on June 2 from the parking lot of a Target store in suburban Kansas City. Grainy surveillance video from the store showed Smith being confronted and pushed into her car.Her body was found four days later in a park about 20 miles away in Missouri...continue to full post

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