Sunday, July 25, 2010
Associated Press
SCRANTON, Pa.
The mother of two young boys killed in an eastern Pennsylvania arson a year ago says prosecutors have told her they will seek the death penalty against the man accused of setting the fire.
Tyaisha Leary says Lackawanna County District Attorney Andy Jarbola has told her he plans to seek execution if 41-year-old William Robert Woods is convicted of first-degree murder in the July 2009 blaze in Scranton that killed 9-year-old Taevon Miles and 10-year-old Michael Miles.
Woods is serving 17 to 36 months on a conviction of making terroristic threats before the blaze.
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