Tales of mental illness and a hard-luck childhood have become standard defense testimony in death penalty cases. ...more

March 20, 2009

Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009

A jury deliberated for five hours Wednesday before finding Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. guilty of first-degree murder in the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009

Jurors have begun deliberating whether Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. took a pair of teenagers to a dirt road two years ago and shot them both in the head. ...more

March 18, 2009

Attorneys for murder defendant Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. called five witnesses to the stand Tuesday. ...more

March 18, 2009

Attorneys for murder defendant Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. called four witnesses to the stand this morning as the defense began presenting its case. ...more

March 17, 2009

The state rested its case against Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. today, betting that the testimony of three "snitches" will be enough to convict the 21-year-old of killing teens Derek Pieper and Raymond Veluz. ...more

March 16, 2009

Farrah Hernandez called Raymond Veluz her best friend. The two met while working at Westshore Pizza in March 2006 and became inseparable. It is hardly surprising, then, that Hernandez was one of the last people to see Veluz and Derek Pieper alive. ...more

March 14, 2009

Farrah Hernandez called Raymond Veluz her best friend. ...more

March 13, 2009

A videotape shown in court Thursday appeared to have captured Andre Pierre-Charles implicating his older brother, Luc, in the 2006 killing of two Wesley Chapel High School students. ...more

March 13, 2009