USA - North Carolina. A jury sentenced Michael Ryan to death

24 May 2010 :

A Gaston County jury sentenced Michael Ryan, white, to death for the March 20, 2007 robbery and murder of David Farrar, 65. Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin has not set a sentencing date yet.

(source: Gaston Gazette, 21/05/2010)

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