USA - Pennsylvania. A jury unanimously sentenced Laquanta Chapman, 33, black, to death

19 November 2012 :

A Chester County jury unanimously sentenced Laquanta Chapman, 33, black, to death in the October 2008 1st-degree murder of 16-year-old Aaron Turner in a drug dispute. He will be formally sentenced at a later date.
 
(source: Daily Local, 14/11/2012)

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