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Updated: 5/02/2012 1:48 pm

Published: 5/02/2012 1:47 pm

FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) — Prosecutors say they'll seek the death penalty against a Hughes man charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a 62-year-old woman.

The trial for 36-year-old Walter Alan Brooks begins this week in St. Francis County. The Times-Herald reports that Brooks is charged with capital murder in the death of Anna Mae Britt and attempted capital murder for allegedly trying to kill Britt's husband.

Police say Britt's husband called police on June 17, 2010, to report that his wife had been shot outside their home. Police claim that Brooks drove to Britt's home and shot the woman as she was unloading hog feed with her husband. Police claim that Brooks tried to shoot Britt's husband, but the gun misfired.

Brooks has pleaded not guilty.

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Butch54 - 5/2/2012 4:19 PM

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Agree the death penalty is a joke in this state. We even have lot's doing life and life without that should be executed. The way I see it is a life for a life. And I'm no saint. But you do not take the life of another.

moonrose - 5/2/2012 3:33 PM

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Dilligaf is right. This state will never carry out the death penalty. That's why hanging on the courthouse lawn should be brought back. That is a marvelous deterrent to crimes of this sort. The jusicial system in this state is in desparate need of overhauling. People here need to get mad about the this type of perp sitting around spending taxpayers money, while his appeals run out. Or better yet, develope a program where he donates the rest of his life to science,as a human guinea pig, and is then injected with some sort of virus/disease that doesn't have a cure oh say AIDS/HIV. Oh but that would be violating the little perp's human rights. NOT IN MY BOOK, HE HAS NO RIGHTS!!! NOT AFTER WHAT HE DID.

dilligaf - 5/2/2012 2:05 PM

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Seek the death penalty all you want, but this nutless state and judicial system will never carry it out.

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