Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jury on Wednesday afternoon recommended that a judge sentence Bessman Okafor to death for the 2012 killing of 19-year-old Alex ...

A judge has accepted a jury's recommendation to put Bessman Okafor back on death row. On Monday, a judge handed down that sentence more than a decade after Okafor murdered 19-year-old Alex Zaldivar.

FDLE INVESTIGATES. S. A JUROR IN A HIGH PROFILE MURDER CASE IS EXPECTED TO FACE SOME SERIOUS CHARGES. WE’VE BEEN COVERING THE RESENTENCING TRIAL FOR BESSMAN OKAFOR. HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING A ...

An Orlando jury has resentenced Bessman Okafor to death on a 9-3 vote, seven years after the state Supreme Court overturned an earlier, non-unanimous death penalty sentence. The jury’s Wednesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Spencer hearing will be held Monday for Bessman Okafor, the man who was convicted in the 2012 murder of Alex Zaldivar. A Spencer ...

COMING UP NEXT I WHEN I SEE YOU. ALL RIGHT KIM, THANK YOU. RIGHT NOW, A CONVICTED MURDERER HAD HIS LAST CHANCE TO ASK A JUDGE TO SPARE HIS LIFE. BEST FOR WAS IN COURT THIS MORNING AFTER A JURY ...

Bessman Okafor, convicted of killing a 19-year-old witness in 2012, might not face another jury to decide whether he should live or die until early 2020, eight years after the murder. “To me, it’s ...

Prosecutors are asking a judge to restore the death sentence of convicted killer Bessman Okafor, citing the Florida Supreme Court’s recent reversal on whether capital punishment requires a unanimous ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A jury on Wednesday afternoon recommended that a judge sentence Bessman Okafor to death for the 2012 killing of 19-year-old Alex Zaldivar. That was the second time a jury had ...