In Akron, a jury has recommended that Donald Lavell...

In Akron, a jury has recommended that Donald Lavell Craig be put to death for the Feb. 28, 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of 12-year-old Roseanna Marie Davenport. Summit Common Pleas Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove will sentence Craig, 44, on Wednesday for killing Roseanna Davenport. The judge can uphold the recommendation or lower it to a life sentence. Craig has maintained that the DNA evidence connecting him to the rape and murder was either intentionally or accidentally switched. He was a suspect in the case immediately after the body was found in March 1996 in a vacant Akron house home just doors from his home. DNA tests back then proved inconclusive. But tests performed in 2002 linked Craig to semen taken from the girl's body and underwear.