Death Sought for ‘60s Radical
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ATLANTA — A prosecutor Monday urged jurors to ignore defense pleas for mercy and choose a death sentence for the former black power radical once known as H. Rap Brown, who was convicted of killing a sheriff’s deputy.
Assistant Dist. Atty. Ron Dixon told jurors that evidence they have already heard justifies a death sentence.
The man who has since changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was convicted Saturday of killing Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy Ricky Kinchen and wounding Deputy Aldranon English in a shootout in March 2000.
The jury has three options: death, life in prison without parole or life with the possibility of parole. For a death sentence in Georgia, the jury must be unanimous. The judge may not overrule its decision.
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