in Sioux City, jurors chose the death penalty for drug dealer Dustin Honken

in Sioux City, jurors chose the death penalty for drug dealer Dustin Honken in the execution-style slayings of 2 children who were among 5 people killed on July 25, 1993 to protect his drug business. 
Honken killed Greg Nicholson and Lori Duncan,  Duncan's daughters, 10-year-old Kandi and 6-year-old Amber, because Nicholson was going to testify against him in a federal drug case.
A few months later, fearing that Terry DeGeus would testify against him, Honken shot DeGeus.
A jury of 9 women and 3 men decided Wednesday that Honken should receive the death sentence for killing Kandi and Amber and get life sentences for killing the adults.
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett announced the jury's decision shortly after 3 p.m.
When Bennett formally pronounces the death sentence, Honken will be the 1st person sentenced to death in Iowa since the early 1960s. The state does not have a death penalty, but Honken was convicted of federal crimes that allow capital punishment for murders associated with a continuing criminal enterprise.
The last person sentenced to death in Iowa was Victor Feguer, who was hanged in 1963. Feguer also was the last federal prisoner executed before a 1960s moratorium on the death penalty. Iowa repealed its death penalty in 1965 and never reinstated it.
3 federal prisoners have been executed since the 1960s.