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Sentencing Delayed For Luxor Bombers
Men Spared Death Penalty
POSTED: 7:30 am PST November 5,
2009
UPDATED: 8:23 am PST November 5,
2009
LAS VEGAS -- Sentencing was pushed back 60 days Thursday for two illegal immigrants who killed a hot dog vendor with a homemade bomb outside a Las Vegas Strip casino in 2007.A jury in September spared 29-year-old Porfirio Duarte-Herrera and 34-year-old Omar Rueda-Denvers of Guatemala the death penalty after finding them guilty of killing 24-year-old Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio outside the Luxor resort.Duarte-Herrera constructed a small bomb and placed it in a coffee cup that was left atop Antonio’s car. He was killed in the explosion, which happened in front of his girlfriend, Caren Chali.Prosecutors said Chali had previously dated Rueda-Denvers, and when the relationship ended his jealousy drove him to enlist Duarte-Herrera in the murder plot.
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