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| Inmate convicted of killing cellmate asks for death penalty |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/27/2004 |
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A jury has recommended the death penalty for an inmate it convicted of capital murder in the strangling of his cellmate at Red Onion State Prison. But, Joseph Armstrong had asked the Wise County (Va.) Circuit Court jury for the death penalty. The 26-year-old Armstrong told the jury that sending him to death row would save his soul. Otherwise, he said, beatings, torture and retaliation would be part of his daily life. After a nine-day trial, the jury convicted Armstrong of murdering 32-year-old Kenneth Boothe Junior in May 2002. During the trial, prosecutors contended Armstrong killed Boothe because he hated gays and blacks and thought Boothe was gay. The defense argued that a depressed Booth hanged himself with a T-shirt. Armstrong said he tried to save Boothe by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation after discovering him hanging. |
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