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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, June 3, 1995                   TAG: 9506050049
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                                LENGTH: Short

PROSECUTORS TO SEEK DEATH OF KILLER, 16

Sixteen-year-old Marvin Owens was convicted Friday of capital murder for killing his grandmother, half-brother and two cousins last summer.

Prosecutors plan to ask for the death penalty in a hearing Monday before Circuit Judge Robert B. Cromwell Jr. Owens, who will turn 17 on June 17, could become the youngest inmate on Virginia's death row.

``No 16-year-old in Virginia yet has been sentenced to death, and we'll be bringing that up,'' said B. Thomas Reed, one of two attorneys who represented Owens. He will ask that his client be given life in prison. If sentenced to life, Owens could be eligible for parole in 30 years.

- Associated Press 


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