for a 2nd time, a jury chose the death penalty for Len Davis...

for a 2nd time, a jury chose the death penalty for Len Davis, a former New Orleans police officer convicted of ordering the murder of a woman who filed a brutality complaint against him.
The verdict was handed up by a federal court jury that rejected a defense call for a life sentence.
Davis had been convicted in 1996 on a charge that he violated the civil rights of Kim Groves when he ordered her death in 1994. But, although the conviction held up on appeal, the death sentence was thrown out because one possible factor in the jury's decision to call for execution - a charge of witness tampering - was thrown out.
Today the new jury found that Davis had specific intent to kill Groves and that he was involved in substantial planning and premeditation.
A federal judge will impose the sentence later.