The Nation - News from April 6, 1989
Mob boss Nicodemo (Little Nicky) Scarfo and seven associates were convicted in Philadelphia on first-degree murder charges in the 1985 slaying of another gangster and could face the electric chair. Jurors deliberated about three hours before returning the verdict on all counts in the slaying of Frank (Frankie Flowers) D’Alfonso in July, 1985. The jury will begin consideration today on whether the defendants should face death in the electric chair. No other mobster in the nation, organized crime investigators say, has ever been sentenced to death.
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