(AP) – A judge will have to decide whether a former eastern
Missouri sheriff’s deputy and state correctional officer gets life in prison or the death penalty for a double homicide.A jury last week found Marvin Rice guilty of first-degree in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend, 32-year-old Annette Durham, and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 39-year-old Steven Strotkamp.
Missouri sheriff’s deputy and state correctional officer gets life in prison or the death penalty for a double homicide.A jury last week found Marvin Rice guilty of first-degree in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend, 32-year-old Annette Durham, and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 39-year-old Steven Strotkamp.
But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the jury on Saturday couldn’t
decide a punishment. The penalty will now be decided by Judge Kelly Parker. A punishment hearing is Oct. 6.
Rice was a former Dent County deputy. He was convicted of killing Durham and her boyfriend in 2011 during a child custody dispute.
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