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PHOTOS: The Nichols jury fails to reach verdict
Saturday, December 13th, 2008, 11:01 am
The Atlanta courthouse gunman who killed a judge and three other people avoided a death sentence on December 12, 2008 when jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision on his sentence.
Prosecutors had urged jurors to sentence Nichols to death after he was convicted last month of murder and dozens of other counts in the 2005 killings. The 37-year-old was on trial for rape when he grabbed a guard’s gun and fatally shot the judge, a court reporter and a sheriff’s deputy at the courthouse. He fled and killed a federal agent in an Atlanta neighborhood.
Nichols sat emotionless throughout the hearing, while relatives of the victims looked downtrodden.
