Reginald Potts Faces Death Penalty for Nailah Franklin Murder |
| Published: April 28, 2008, 12:32 pm |
| Tags: society, nailah franklin, reginald potts |
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I’ve been looking for updated information but haven’t found any except the excerpt below. I don’t believe in the death penalty but I don’t think people should die senselessly either. Prosecutors announced Tuesday that the state will seek the death penalty for a Chicago man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and leaving her naked body in Calumet City. Reginald Potts Jr., 31, was charged in December with the murder of Nailah Franklin, 28, a pharmaceutical representative from the Near South Side reported missing more than a week before her badly decomposed body was found late September. Cook County Assistant State’s Atty. Maria McCarthy said two factors qualify capital punishment. First, Franklin was killed during the commission of a felony. In addition to murder, Potts is charged with robbery, kidnapping and vehicular hijacking. Second, the slaying was committed in a “cold and calculated,” or premeditated, manner, she said. In Circuit Judge [ Full article ] |
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