CHESAPEAKE, Va., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A Chesapeake, Va., jury Tuesday recommended Lee Boyd Malvo be sentenced to life without parole for his part in the 2002 Washington sniper attacks, CNN reports.
Malvo was found guilty of capital murder Thursday after a three-week trial and two days of jury deliberations.
Malvo, 18, is the second suspect convicted in the shootings that left 10 people dead in metropolitan Washington area October 2002.
The defense claimed Malvo was brainwashed by accomplice and father-figure John Allen Muhammad, who has already been convicted and sentenced to death for one of the slayings.
Malvo was charged with two counts of capital murder and one weapons charge in the Oct. 14, 2002, slaying of Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot.
