CENTENNIAL, Colo.—Arapahoe County jurors deliberating whether a convicted killer should be executed have left on a weekend break without deciding on a sentence.
Twenty-three-year-old Robert Ray was convicted last month on two counts of first-degree murder in the 2005 shooting deaths of Vivian Wolfe and Javad Marshall-Fields.
Fields was going to testify against Ray in another murder trial.
Jurors halted deliberations Friday afternoon and will resume Monday.
Prosecutors say Ray has “forfeited his right to live” and should be executed as a deterrent against killing other trial witnesses.
Defense witnesses told jurors that Ray had a violent upbringing in Chicago and saw at least three people get killed by the time he was 7.
Ray also spoke to jurors, asking them for a life sentence.
