An Oklahoma County jury has recommended Alfred Brian...

An Oklahoma County jury has recommended Alfred Brian Mitchell, 29, be sentenced to death for the Jan. 7, 1991, death of Elaine Marie Scott, 21.
District Judge Susan Caswell set sentencing for Nov. 18.
In 1992, Mitchell was convicted of 1st-degree murder and sentenced to death. He was granted a new sentencing trial because appellate judges ruled in August 2001 that jurors may have been swayed by improper testimony from now-fired Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist. Mitchell was originally convicted of raping and sodomizing Scott and sentenced to 120 years in prison.
In 1999, U.S. District Judge Ralph Thompson in Oklahoma City ruled Gilchrist gave misleading testimony about DNA evidence and tossed out the rape and sodomy convictions against Mitchell. But because Gilchrist's testimony pertained only to the alleged sexual assault, Thompson left Mitchell's murder conviction and sentence.