Veteran organized crime reporter George Anastasia is covering the Kaboni Savage federal trial in Philadelphia for Bigtrial.net.
Death by lethal injection or life in a "concrete box."
That's what the future holds for Kaboni Savage, his lawyer told a federal jury today at the start of the capital punishment phase of Savage's racketeering-murder trial.
In a low-key, but pointed opening statement, the lawyer, William Purpura, asked the jury to choose the box -- the concrete prison cell where Savage will spend the rest of his life.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Troyer, on the other hand, asked the jury to sentence Savage, 38, to death for orchestrating a series of murders, including one of the "most heinous crimes" ever committed in the Philadelphia underworld, a firebombing in which six innocent people -- two women and four children -- were killed.
Capital punishment in federal cases, Troyer told the jury, is reserved for the most heinous crimes and the worst offenders.
"This is that case," the prosecutor said.
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http://www.bigtrial.net/2013/05/life-or-death-in-kaboni-savage-trial.html#more
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