ChicagoAvenger
08-13-2008, 06:59 AM
DA seeks rare death penalty for Atwater
Atwater, 22, could be sentenced to death. His co-defendant could not.
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Jesse James DeConto, Staff Writer
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HILLSBOROUGH - No Orange County jury has sent a man to death row since 1973. District Attorney Jim Woodall wants to give execution another chance.
Woodall said Monday he plans to seek the death penalty for 22-year-old Demario Atwater in the killing of Eve Carson, the UNC-Chapel Hill student body president.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Lock approved Woodall's plan to prosecute Atwater on a capital murder charge after the district attorney claimed that three legal factors made the killing merit lethal injection. Woodall said Atwater killed Carson while robbing her, for financial gain and in an "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel" manner.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1174017.html
Atwater, 22, could be sentenced to death. His co-defendant could not.
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Jesse James DeConto, Staff Writer
http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=1ZHdjcF6HHwJ&imv=1
HILLSBOROUGH - No Orange County jury has sent a man to death row since 1973. District Attorney Jim Woodall wants to give execution another chance.
Woodall said Monday he plans to seek the death penalty for 22-year-old Demario Atwater in the killing of Eve Carson, the UNC-Chapel Hill student body president.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Lock approved Woodall's plan to prosecute Atwater on a capital murder charge after the district attorney claimed that three legal factors made the killing merit lethal injection. Woodall said Atwater killed Carson while robbing her, for financial gain and in an "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel" manner.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1174017.html