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Jury Recommends Death For Joshua Douglas
April 16, 2014
An Escambia County jury voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend the death sentence for 32-year old Joshua Wayne Douglas.
Douglas was convicted last week of the brutal rape and murder of a woman whose body was found in wooded area off Nine Mile Road. The body of 25-year old Jamie Broxson was found near a Gulf Power substation not far from Broxson’s home in November 2010. Douglas was tied to the murder by DNA evidence.
One additional hearing will be held May 23 for the purpose of presenting any further evidence for the court to consider before imposing sentence.
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7 Responses to “Jury Recommends Death For Joshua Douglas”
Should have got the death penalty instead of life. Doesn’t deserve to be on this earth.
I like to say thanks Lauren for your comment. Till this I still don’t understand everything. I pray that one day the truth will come out but till then we all take it one day at a time. We all luv you son
I grew up with Josh he was a great friend to me ,he is not a
Monster he was an amazing father a great friend and he was always full of love, compassion ,he had such a kind heart !! This is so sad !!
Only god and Josh know the truth remember who he was not who’s he portrayed to be!!
God be with you all and my heart goes out to both family’s !!!
Only God knows the real truth here. I think a young man having sex with a girl that that left his DNA . I don’t think you should take a life for a life with out more facts….
I am proud to say that my nephew was on that jury..didn`t know about that until yesterday,,he is a fine young man and I know it was a hard on him..I am so proud of him..
No appeals, no mercy, no time on death row, his time on this earth is up, and let’s all hope it’s a really dry heat where he is headed.
I just want to tell the jury that I am proud of ya’ll for doing the right thing and having the guts to give this devil what he deserves. Lets just hope he goes through his appeals process quickly so he can be dealt with in a timely manner, better yet I pray he waives his appeals and takes his punishment like a man.
You jury members hold your head high and feel no remorse or regret for your decision, you did a fantastic job, one that needed to be done excatly with the results you people dished out. Thank you.
I don’t know this guy or the victims nor any of the jurors, my comments are mine alone and I’ll say it all again if necessary. I have no compassion or empathy for people like this man.