OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – An Oklahoma Metropolis man who defended himself in a first-degree homicide trial was sentenced to dying on Tuesday.
Derrick Laday obtained the dying penalty, lower than one week after a jury discovered him responsible of murdering Dennis Johnson Jr. in 2015.
Laday murdered Johnson and drove his physique practically 100 miles away. He then set the physique on hearth beneath an Ada bridge.
The defendant selected to symbolize himself within the trial, which was held all through final week.
He referred to as his brother Aaron Laday to the stand, who then confessed to the 2015 homicide. However whereas Aaron Laday was allegedly current in the course of the kidnapping and homicide of Johnson, prosecutors insisted it was Derrick Laday who orchestrated the homicide.
Derrick Laday advised KFOR final week following the trial that he would attraction his conviction.
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