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Top Kone sends a link to the news<\/a> that the District Attorney of Hardin County, Kentucky is seeking the death penalty for Aaron Lee Pearson because Pearson is suspected of murdering 71-year-old Norman Hall, a 22-year veteran of the Army, during a robbery;<\/p>\n

Hall died from multiple blows to his head and face and from being stabbed in the neck, officials said.<\/p>\n

Pearson also was indicted on complicity to first-degree robbery and complicity to tampering with physical evidence charges.<\/p>\n

He is accused of taking an oxygen tank Hall used from the victim\u2019s residence and throwing it \u201cinto a rocky terrain in an effort to conceal it from police,\u201d according to his indictment.<\/p>\n

Hall was found after Radcliff Police De\u00adpart\u00adment officers performed a welfare check Sept. 9, 2016, after neighbors said Hall hadn\u2019t been seen for a few days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pearson’s partner in crime, Eloysia James-Venerable, 18, of Radcliff, is expected to testify in the trial, because there is no honor among thieves, apparently.<\/p>\n

James-Venerable, who was 16 when Hall was killed, accepted a plea deal in February that recommends she serve 20 to 50 years or life in prison, with parole eligibility after 20 years.<\/p>\n

The agreement also includes assurances she will testify against Pear\u00adson. Should James-Venerable not provide honest testimony, the commonwealth will remove the offer and she will be sentenced to life without parole.<\/p>\n

She was charged with complicity to commit murder; first-degree bur\u00adg\u00adlary; first-degree receiving stolen property \u2014 firearm; and tampering with physical evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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