A jury sentenced convicted cop killer Marco Antonio Perez on Friday, a day after finding him guilty of shooting Mobile Police Officer Sean Tuder to death.
) - A jury on Friday sentenced convicted Theodore resident Marco Antonio Perez to death for the murder of Police Officer Sean Tuder five years ago.
“Sean Tuder put that badge on to protect and serve this community and for it, he got sentenced to death by Marco Perez,” he said. “We cannot tolerate that in our community, and we will not. Our police are vital to civilization. They’re vital to our community. And when the police get murdered, we’re gonna seek the death penalty.”“Of course, they’re devastated,” he said. “You saw Mr. and Mrs. Perez in there. They’re good people; they’re hard-working people.
After Thursday’s verdict, proceedings immediately shifted to the sentencing phase. Under Alabama law, the decision was solely in the hands of the jury. It required only seven of 12 jurors to sentence Perez to life without parole. But before even getting to that point, the jury unanimously had to find that prosecutors had proved at least one aggravating factor. The one they cited was killing a police officer to avoid arrest or effect an escape.
“He was a teenager when he did this, not legally allowed to drink a beer but old enough for the state of Alabama to execute,” she said.violence and law-breaking that Perez has engaged in since the murder while locked up at Mobile County Metro Jail awaiting trial. That includes a pair of assaults, including one in which he ordered the victim to strip and then assaulted him when he refused. There was also testimony that Perez had a homemade metal “shank.
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