After roughly six hours of deliberation, a jury sentenced 44-year-old Rodney Young to die for the bludgeoning and stabbing death of 28-year-old Gary Jones. Capital Defender Joseph Romond asked jurors to spare Young, reminding them of how he was as a child and that there were plenty of people in his life that wanted him shown mercy. "Do we punish Rodney by sending him to the cold dark prison cell... or do we have to kill him?