Jury Says No Death Penalty For Women's Killer
Wife, Mother Shot In Mobile Home In 1984
POSTED: 8:54 am EDT October 21,
2008
UPDATED: 8:01 am EDT October 23,
2008
UNIONTOWN, Pa. -- A Waynesburg man will remain in prison for life instead of being executed for killing his common-law wife and her mother in 1984.The same Fayette County jury that convicted 57-year-old George Nara of first-degree murder decided he doesn't deserve the death penalty for shooting 23-year-old DeLorean Churby and her mother, 61-year-old Virginia Churby.Nara was on trial because his attorneys appealed, saying the auto body worker with a seventh-grade education wasn't competent when he pleaded guilty more than 20 years ago.
A federal appeals court agreed that Nara deserved a trial, so prosecutors decided to seek the death penalty, but the jury decided against it.Police said Nara went to Virginia Churby's mobile home in Georges Township on Jan. 28, 1984, and shot the door lock off, then shot both women with a .45-caliber handgun.
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