Donald Fell, 26, was formally sentenced to death...

Donald Fell, 26, was formally sentenced to death, Vermont’s 1st death sentence since 1957. Fell said what he did “was horrible and wrong” as he apologized before U.S. District Court Judge William Sessions III sentenced him.
Fell was sentenced on July 14, 2005 (see) by the same jury that found him guilty of killing Terry King.
The last death sentence in Vermont was issued in 1957. The state abandoned the death penalty in the mid-1960s, although the law remained on the books for another 20 years.
Vermont does not have a state death penalty, but federal prosecutors brought charges under a U.S. law that allows the death penalty for a carjacking that results in a death.
King was 53 when she was abducted on Nov. 27, 2000, outside a supermarket by Fell and his co-defendant, Robert Lee. The two had just killed Fell’s mother and a friend of hers after a night of heavy drinking in an apartment.
Lee died in prison in September 2001.