Prosecutor: Death penalty possible for slayings' suspects
January 22, 2017
NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor says the death penalty "is on the table" in the case of two people who investigators say fled to Mexico as suspects in a triple homicide last October.
Harvey County prosecutors have charged 35-year-old Jereme Nelson and 31-year-old Myrta Rangel each with one count of capital murder and three counts of first-degree murder.
Nelson and Rangel were arrested earlier this month in Mexico and were returned to the U.S., where they remain jailed in California and await extradition to Kansas.
Authorities have said the bodies of 33-year-old Travis Street and 3...
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