USA - California. A jury sentenced Michael Charles Brown to death.

A Kern County jury sentenced Michael Charles Brown, 40, Black, to death. Brown was arrested in 2009 in connection with the murder of Ruby Merryweather in 2000. The murder of Meriweather remained unsolved for nearly 16 years. Brown was linked to the Jackson-Merryweather murder through DNA. Police say he was also a serial rapist, picking up prostitutes and sexually assaulting them. Brown was convicted of 17 charges in connection with alleged assaults on 4 different women. He already served time for manslaughter for running over a man in 2003. Judge Kenneth Twisselman will sentence Brown on March 9.