Sentencing phase in quadruple murder trial to begin Tuesday morning
By Dan Klein
WSAZ News
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) - The penalty phase on the quadruple murder trial against Arron Lawson is set to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.
The death penalty is an option in the case.
A three-judge panel on Monday has found quadruple murder suspect Arron Lawson guilty on most of the counts he faced, according to our crew at the scene.
Because it's a capital murder case, each charge had several aggravated circumstances/specifications that the prosecution must still prove, even though Lawson already had pleaded guilty to all charges.
Lawson faced 13 counts in the killings of Donald and Tammie McGuire, along with their daughter Stacey Jackson Holston, and her son, 8-year-old Devin Holston. The murders happened October 2017 along state Route 93 in Pedro.
Lawson was found not guilty on a rape charge involving Stacey Jackson, as well as the aggravated circumstance of aggravated murder while committing rape.
The state also had to toss out a felonious assault charge involving another victim, Todd Holston, because it merged with an attempted murder charge involving that victim.
In effect, the three-judge panel found that the prosecution did not present enough evidence to accept a guilty plea on certain charges.
The victims' family had no comment Monday.
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