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| Officers could face death penalty in inmate assault |
| By The Tennessean |
| Published: 11/22/2004 |
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The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking for the death penalty for two of the detention officers charged with civil-rights abuses at the Wilson County (Tenn.) jail. The status of the negotiations came to light last week during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Todd J. Campbell, who is preparing for next year's trial of five defendants who have been charged with taking part in a conspiracy of brutal jailhouse beatings. Two of those men, Patrick Marlowe and Gary Hale, are charged in the fatal 2003 assault of Walter Kuntz, a detainee who slipped into a coma at the jail and later died at a nearby hospital. Attorneys for both men notified Campbell last week that they had been notified that a capital-case review committee at the U.S. Department of Justice was considering asking for the death penalty for Marlowe and Hale, a hearing transcript shows. Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Cohen told Campbell that the review committee would make a final recommendation to the U.S. attorney general and estimated that it a decision could come within two months. |
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