USA - Florida. Phillup Partin was sentenced to death

In New Port Richey, Phillup Partin was sentenced to death in the July 31, 2002 slaying of a 16-year-old girl he picked up hitchhiking, Joshan Ashbrook. A Pasco County jury found Partin guilty of 1st-degree murder in March. The same jury then voted 9-3 to recommend he be sentenced to death; Circuit Judge William Webb handed down the death sentence today.