Vermont jury breaks 50-year tradition, sentences man to death
Published: Friday, July 15, 2005  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A man
who kidnapped a supermarket worker and fatally beat her as she
prayed for her life was sentenced to death Thursday by a federal
jury in Vermont's first capital punishment case in almost a half
century. The last execution in Vermont was in 1954.  The jury
took only about 10 hours to decide that 25-year-old Donald Fell
should be executed.  Fell was found guilty June 24 of kidnapping
53-year-old Terry King as she arrived for work in Rutland,
taking her to New York state and bludgeoning her to death during
an alcohol and drug-induced stupor. The abduction came as Fell
and his accomplice fled after fatally stabbing Fell's mother and
a friend of hers.  Vermont has no death penalty, but the killers
crossed state lines, so U.S. prosecutors brought charges under a
federal law that allows the death penalty for a carjacking that
results in death.  Fell had agreed in 2001 to plead guilty in
exchan