Summary of Offense:
Benjamin pistol-whipped and robbed Jimmie Floyd Lewis in a rainy mall parking lot, and then shot Lewis in the heart and leg, killing him on November 18, 2000. Benjamin bragged of the murder (although he would later claim the gun accidentally discharged). In mitigation the defense argued that Benjamin had an absent father and had endured years of physical and emotional abuse; further, he had experienced the deaths of four primary caregivers.
Benjamin was sentenced to death in 2004 in Houston County by a judge after a ten-to-two jury recommendation of death.
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