Three former federal prosecutors said that the U.S. government would face significant-but not necessarily insurmountable-hurdles in prosecuting Brian G. Nichols for a crime that could lead to his execution.
Nichols sidestepped the death penalty last week when three of 12 Fulton County jurors refused to deliver the ultimate sentence for murdering a judge, a court reporter, a Fulton County sheriff’s deputy and a federal immigration and customs agent during and after his March 2005 escape from the Fulton County Courthouse. Nichols was sentenced Saturday to four life-without-parole sentences for the murders, plus 485 years for other crimes-all to be served consecutively.
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