A man accused of killing four women in four states should be executed for stabbing a woman and leaving her to die in a motel bathtub, a jury recommended Friday.

The jury that convicted Glen Rogers earlier this week voted 12-0 for death in the electric chair. A simple majority vote would have delivered the same verdict.The judge will have the final decision on whether Rogers should be executed or sent to prison for life without parole for killing Tina Marie Cribbs, 34, in November 1995. Sentencing was set for June 20.

Rogers stood stonefaced as a clerk read the verdict. Three female jurors sobbed as the judge polled the jury.

Cribbs was stabbed twice on Nov. 5, 1995. An 8-inch knife wound ripped through her chest, piercing a lung, and a 9-inch gash to the buttocks punctured a major artery. A coroner said her death came slowly.

"He is a murderer, a robber and a thief," said assistant Hillsborough State Attorney Karen Cox.

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Defense lawyer Robert Fraser urged jurors to consider that Rogers came from an abusive home, suffers mental problems aggravated by repeated blows to the head and is an alcoholic - a mix that turns him violent.

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