
This Sept. 12, 2017 booking photo from the Florence County Detention Center shows Brandon Council. The same jury that found the North Carolina man guilty of killing two employees during a South Carolina bank robbery will now decide whether he is executed for the crimes. A federal jury deliberated just over an hour Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, before delivering guilty verdicts against Council. Council's trial in Florence, S.C., then moved into deciding whether he gets life in prison or the death penalty for shooting the manager and a teller at CresCom Bank in Conway in August 2017. (Florence County Detention Center via AP)
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