Death Sentence for Sherrill

After deliberating for less than three hours, a Mecklenberg County jury has sentenced Michael Wayne Sherrill to death.  It is the first new death sentence of 2009, and the first time a Charlotte jury has sent someone to death row in almost a decade.

Sherrill was convicted of the 1984 rape and murder of Cynthia Dotson.  Sherrill was not arrested until a DNA match was made in 2004.