Sentencing Set In Killing Of Delaware Police Officer

GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP) -- A Maryland man convicted of murder in the 2009 shooting of a Georgetown police officer is about to learn his fate.

A Sussex County judge was scheduled to sentence Derrick Powell of Cumberland, Md., at a hearing Friday.

Powell faces either the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killing of patrolman Chad Spicer.

The jury that convicted Powell in February recommended by a 7-to-5 vote that he be executed.

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