LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A man convicted of helping to torture and murder his friend's adoptive parents will join his father on death row.
Jurors deliberated three hours Wednesday before sentencing Landon D. May, 20, to death for his role in the murders of elementary school principal Lucy Smith and her husband, Terry, on Sept. 6, 2001.
The same jury convicted May last week of two counts of first-degree murder.
The decision came despite the contention of May's attorney that the defendant suffered from a "brain dysfunction" that prevented him from thinking normally. The lawyer said May also once required medical treatment for depression and anxiety.
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May's father, Freeman May, was sentenced to death in 1995 for a 1982 murder.