USA - Colorado. Sir Mario Owens, 23, black, was sentenced to death today.

Sir Mario Owens, 23, black, was sentenced to death today for the June 2005 murders of Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiancée, Vivian Wolfe. Arapahoe County Judge Gerald Rafferty ordered that Owens be put to death by lethal injection in March 2009, but the sentence must be reviewed by the Colorado Supreme Court. Owens will be the second person on the state's death row. Marshall-Fields had been set to testify against Owens' friend Robert Ray. Owens is already serving life in prison for the shooting death of Gregory Vann on July 4, 2004. Ray, also serving a prison sentence for Vann's death, in August will go to trial in the murders of Marshall-Fields and Wolfe. Prosecutors say Ray gave the order to kill the two. He also faces the death penalty.