Death Penalty Stands in CIA Killings Case

A judge refused to void a jury’s recommended death sentence for a Pakistani man convicted of killing two people in a shooting outside CIA headquarters. Mir Aimal Kasi’s lawyers had asked state Judge J. Howe Brown to sentence Kasi to life in prison or order a new sentencing portion of his trial. Formal sentencing is set for Jan. 23. Lawyer Richard Goemann had argued that one juror’s comments in a newspaper article after Kasi’s trial revealed that the jury was improperly worried about its own safety during deliberations. In addition to the two who were killed, three people were wounded in the shooting spree on Jan. 25, 1993.