Facts of the Crime:
A Lexington County jury in 2006 deliberated less than three hours before recommending the death penalty for Kevin Mercer for shooting Sgt. 1st Class Tracy Davis, 35, a U.S. Army recruiter, to death outside Davis’ Fernandina Road apartment on May 16, 2002. Mercer and an accomplice killed Sgt. 1st Class Tracy Davis, 35, a U.S. Army recruiter at Fort Jackson, because they wanted Davis’ 1999 Lincoln Navigator to drive to a party in Atlanta. Mercer had a long criminal record, and had attacked another inmate with a shank in 2004. Mercer claimed the other passenger found with him in the vehicle was the killer.
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