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A federal jury found former Page Street Gang member Dennis Cyrus guilty of drug racketeering and three counts of murder, including the killing of federal witness Ray Jimmerson in 2002. The Obama administration's Justice Department had recently taken over the case. which is being prosecuted by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who opposes the death penalty but said he would "enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us," refused to accept a plea deal with Cyrus' defense attorneys in exchange for a life sentence. Next week, the jury will decide whether to give Cyrus the death penalty. This would be the first time a federal jury has given the death penalty here since 1948, when two Alcatraz inmates got the gas chamber for a deadly 1946 escape attempt.
Former Gang Member Could Get First Federal Death Sentence in SF in 60 Years
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oh man, two guns pointed in my face on sfist today. where should i paypal the cash?
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Ha, I just counted three! Original photography is hard to come by sometimes.
Holder isn't prosecuting the case; he simply made the decision to reject the plea deal. William Frentzen is the prosecutor on the case, and has been for years.
It's nice that the Fed govt is taking out the trash when our local county DA refuses to do anything about it.
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The Feds have used the death penalty more recently: Tim McVeigh, the Oklahoma Bomber, was found guilty by a Federal jury and was killed by lethal injection not too many years ago.
To clarify, it would be the first death sentence in San Francisco in 60 years. I fixed the headline too.
about friggin' time! this is the key to prison overcrowding. most of them should have been put down long ago. any violent crime re-offender, molester, manslaughter, you name it. any time someone threatens your life for personal gain, they are not capable of be rehabilitated to see value in life again. just put them down.
So you want the death penalty for threatening someone else? Your country's not going to have anyone left to execute everyone who's sentenced to death.
On the other hand, the wait time at the DMV will drop to zero, so I guess there's an upside.