Facts of the Crime:
On February 15, 2005, the Grand Jury of Randolph County returned bills of indictment charging George Wilkerson with two counts of murder and one count of first-degree burglary. The victims were Casey James Dinoff, 19, and Christopher Cameron Voncannon, 18. The cause came on to be capitally tried at the November 27, 2006 Criminal Session of the Randolph County Superior Court, the Honorable V. Bradford Long presiding. On December 15, 2006, the jury found Mr. Wilkerson guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree burglary. On December 20, 2006, the jury returned binding recommendations that Mr. Wilkerson be sentenced to death on both murder counts.
On the same date, Judge Long sentenced Mr. Wilkerson to death and arrested judgment on the first-degree burglary verdict. After a three-week trial in Randolph Superior Court, George Thomas Wilkerson was sentenced to death on December 20 for the shooting deaths of two teenagers at a Randleman residence on November 11, 2005. Wilkerson became the eighth man on death row from Randolph County.
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