District attorney pursues death penalty despite odds
ELIZABETH CITY — Despite the odds, a district attorney is pursuing the death penalty for the four prisoners charged with killing a manager, a mechanic and two corrections officers in the deadliest prison escape attempt in the state’s history.The case meets almost every standard for capital punishment, said Andrew Womble, district attorney for northeastern North Carolina.But the reality is that it’s been 12 years since an inmate was executed in […]
