Former Prosecutor Gets Death Penalty
A once-prominent Delaware attorney and former prosecutor was sentenced to death by injection for the 1996 murder of his girlfriend, an aide to the governor. Superior Court Judge William Swain Lee sentenced Thomas Capano, 49, to death in a Wilmington, Del., court two months after a jury convicted Capano of slaying Anne Marie Fahey, 30. Fahey, a scheduling secretary to Gov. Thomas R. Carper, disappeared in June 1996 after being seen with Capano at a restaurant. He admitted dumping Fahey’s body in the Atlantic Ocean but said she was accidentally shot by another woman.
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