USA - Virginia. A federal jury unanimously sentenced David Runyon to death

A federal jury unanimously sentenced to death David Runyon, convicted in the slaying of a Navy officer in an April 2007 murder-for-hire plot. Runyon, 38, white, was found guilty in July of the contract killing of Cory Allen Voss, 30. Police and federal agents determined that Voss' wife, Catherina Voss, and her boyfriend, Michael Draven, plotted the death, made to look like a random robbery, in order to be together and collect about $500,000 in insurance money. Catherina Voss acknowledged hiring Runyon to kill her husband for $20,000. Catherina Voss, 34, pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to four life terms. Draven, 29, was found guilty in July, and will be sentenced in November. He does not face the death penalty. Runyon will be formally sentenced in December by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith, who has presided over Runyon's trial. Under law, she must impose the jury's sentence. Death sentences are rare in the federal system. It was the 1st death sentence issued in a federal court in Hampton Roads in 11 years.