St. Louis, Missouri (AP)-- Jurors in the first degree murder trial of Fredrick Allen Barnes will return this morning to begin their deliberations as to whether the punishment should be life in prison with no chance of release or death row.The twenty three year old Barnes was convicted by the panel on Thursday in the death of Dwoyne Ammons, who was brutally stabbed and left for dead inside an apartment in the 3100 block of Brantner Place following a dispute in September 2007. The apartment was later set ablaze, and autopsy results showed the victim was still alive after the fire was started, but by the time the fire was extinguished, Ammons was already dead.Barnes is also charged with raping and sodomizing the woman, thenslapping her infant child inside the home before lighting the building on fire and fleeing.Investigators say the woman escaped the burning apartment with the baby boy, but jumping from a second story window of the building.Barnes is also charged with robbery, assault, arson, child endangerment, and armed criminal action in the case. />
Jurors deliberate death penalty in 2007 crime spree
Jurors return to court this morning to begin the decision making arguments as to whether Fredrick Allen Barnes should live or die for killing a one-time friend.
