Death penalty not sought in Pa. car wash slaying
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EBENSBURG – A man charged in the stabbing death of his girlfriend at a western Pennsylvania car wash last summer will not face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder.
Twenty-one-year-old Demetrius Gibson of Johnstown is charged in the Aug. 6 slaying of 21-year-old Elizabeth Ann Miller in Moxham.
The Tribune-Democrat said prosecutors told a Cambria County judge during Gibson’s arraignment Tuesday that they would not seek the death penalty.
State law requires a defendant and his attorney to be notified if prosecutors plan to seek execution.
At a hearing last month, a witness said Gibson and Miller had been fighting the night before the stabbing.
Defense attorney Thomas Dickey said he will seek a jury trial on charges of criminal homicide, aggravated assault and simple assault.