Stay updated with breaking news from Jerry Elders. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The basketball hoop where she used to play is now in her mind the place where he pointed a gun at her mother and forced her into the truck.
A Johnson County jury is deliberating the fate of a man convicted of killing a woman in 2021.
“You will answer two questions but nobody in this courtroom is giving him the death penalty. He earned that,” prosecutor Matthew Staton said in closing arguments.
Day two in the sentencing phase for Jerry Elders on Tuesday was bogged down with questions about prison conditions and procedure. But the day ended with testimony from the victim’s family as they described what Elders took from them.
Relatives described convicted capital murderer Jerry Elders as a good person who made mistakes in testimony just before the defense closed its case in his trial’s punishment phase Wednesday.