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City man escapes death penalty with plea deal for 2005 murder
TweetYOUNGSTOWN — A city man will not be put to death for his role in a 2005 murder, but he likely will never live as a free man again.
Antonio Jackson, 28, of Summer Street, was set to go on trial today for the Aug. 6, 2005, aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and rape, but instead accepted a plea agreement from prosecutors.
Jackson accepted the plea before Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Prosecutors, under the plea agreement, dropped certain forms of aggravated murder and kidnapping from the original indictment and removed the death-penalty specifications. Jackson pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated murder, three counts of kidnapping, three counts of aggravated robbery and rape.
As part of the plea agreement, the state recommended that Jackson be sentenced to two consecutive life terms without any possibility of parole for the aggravated murder charges, three years for the gun specifications and a combined 10 years for all other counts.
For the complete story, see Friday's Vindicator and Vindy.com
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Spared from death and he will be out before he is fifty .
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THE VICTIMS
Slaton, 19, of Vestal Road, was found floating in McKelvey Lake on the East Side around 6:30 p.m. Aug. 7, shot once. She left home at 12:40 p.m. Aug. 6 and was reported missing late that night by her mother.
Tahnee Jackson, 29, of Cassius Street, was found shortly before 4 a.m. Nov. 20, nude and floating in a creek in a wooded area near Erie Street and Earle Avenue on the South Side. She had been drowned.
The victim's friend, a 25-year-old Plazaview Court woman, told police they had given a ride to two men who approached them outside a bar on the East Side. The two women and two men then went to Frieda's, a bar on Belmont Avenue, and stayed until closing.
Later, police said, Tahnee Jackson was beaten and forced into the water by Antonio Jackson, who held the woman's head under water until she drowned. He was quoted as saying, "That's eight under my belt" and that he just got out of prison for murder.
This is why Ohio needs the "three strikes you're out" law and this trash would never see the light of day to do this again