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Peter Avsenew, who maintained his innocence in court Thursday despite having been convicted twice of the brutal 2010 murders of a Wilton Manors couple, deserves to be sentenced to death, a Broward jury decided. The jury deliberated less than an hour before reaching its unanimous decision, Broward’s first death penalty recommendation since a new law was passed this year making it easier to send ...

Convicted killer Peter Avsenew sat before a new jury Wednesday and said nothing. The jury was empaneled to answer a single question: Does Avsenew, 38, deserve to be sentenced to death for the 2010 murders of Kevin Powell, 47, and Stephen Adams, 52. Two previous juries had answered yes to that question, but both had their recommendations overturned later. Asvenew was convicted of killing the ...

Convicted killer Peter Avsenew will represent himself next month when a jury is convened to determine whether he deserves to live or die. Avsenew, 38, was convicted last year of the murders of Kevin Powell, 47, and Stephen Adams, 52, a Wilton Manors couple who took him into their home during the holiday season in 2010 only to have him turn on them, steal their car and escape to his mother’s ...

Convicted killer Peter Avsenew told a Broward judge Tuesday that he would rather risk the death penalty, again, than let the jury in his double murder retrial last year off the hook for allegations of misconduct. Avsenew, 38, was convicted twice of the murders of Kevin Powell, 52, and Stephen Adams, 47, a Wilton Manors couple who took him into their home during the 2010 holiday season only to ...

A masked witness took the stand Thursday to testify in the murder trial of Jamell (YNW Melly) Demons, spooking at least one juror and raising the possibility that the defendant is being deprived of his right to a fair trial. The witness was Danny Polo, a detective with the Broward Sheriff’s Office who is an expert on gangs and works undercover. Broward Circuit Judge John Murphy permitted Polo ...

A masked witness took the stand Thursday to testify in the murder trial of Jamell (YNW Melly) Demons, spooking at least one juror and raising the possibility that the defendant

A twice-convicted former death row inmate will get a third chance to convince a jury that his life should be spared, a Broward judge has ruled.

Rosario “Ross” Melici is guilty of first-degree murder. A jury decided that last month. But did he stab Philip and Barbara Russo to death, or was that his accomplice’s dirty work? The same jury that convicted him on Nov. 14 is coming back to decide whether Melici deserves to be executed for the murders of the Deerfield Beach couple.

The foreman of a jury that recommended sending convicted killer Peter Avsenew back to the Florida’s death row last month admitted in Broward court Monday that he watched a documentary about the case before he made his decision.

The foreman of a jury that recommended sending convicted killer Peter Avsenew back to the Florida’s death row last month admitted in Broward court Monday that he watched a documentary about the case before he made his decision.