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Closing arguments today: Life or Death
Jury will decide if Lakemper gets death
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Jurors will hear closing arguments in the penalty phase of the death penalty trial of convicted murderer Cobey Wade Lakemper tomorrow, and are expected to begin deliberating his fate before the end of day. Lakemper was convicted of the 2005 murder of Wendy Cartledge-Carter late Thursday afternoon. The penalty phase of the trial began the next day, and jurors will now decide if Lakemper should spend the rest of his life in prison with the possibility of parole, life in prison without the possibility of parole or if he should receive the death penalty for his crimes.