• Font Size    
E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

DA Satisfied With Owens Death Sentence

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

   Print     Share +   
Jun 18, 2008 8:10 am US/Mountain

DA Satisfied With Owens Death Sentence

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4) ― The district attorney for Arapahoe County says she is satisfied with the death sentence given to Sir Mario Owens.

On Monday, a jury sentenced Owens to death for the murder of potential witness Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiancée Vivian Wolfe. The two were shot to death in their car more than three years ago.

District Attorney Carol Chambers told the CBS4 Morning News Tuesday that the circumstances of the case forced her office to seek the death penalty.

"The death penalty is something the community imposes," Chambers explained. "We seek it but prosecutors don't impose it… our response from [the community] has been in our jury questionnaires. In this case, we saw 90 to 95 percent of the jurors in Arapahoe Country… favored the death penalty in some circumstances."

Chambers also said that she would like to find some way of controlling the cost of death penalty cases in Colorado while simultaneously ensuring that innocent persons are not put to death.

(© MMIX CBS Television Stations, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

Curious & Controversial News

You need the latest Flash player to view video content.
Click here to download.

Click here to bypass this detection if you already have the latest Flash Player.

Colorado & Denver News

Top News Stories

© MMIX, CBS Television Stations Inc. All Rights Reserved.