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Anthony Kirkland
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Anthony Kirkland
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Anthony Kirkland
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Accused killer Anthony Kirkland is flanked by his attorneys Norm
Aubin, left, and William
Welsh in the
Hamilton County Common Pleas Courtroom of Judge Charles Kubicki.
(The Enquirer/Gary Landers)
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Anthony Kirkland is led from the Hamilton County Common Pleas
Courtroom
of Judge Charles Kubicki.
(The Enquirer/Gary Landers)
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Anthony Kirkland
(The Enquirer/Malinda Hartong)
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Anthony Kirkland, with lawyer John Keller, pleaded not guilty to the
murder of 13-year-old
Esme Kenney.
He is in jail on $5.3 million bond.
(The Enquirer/Malinda Hartong)
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Anthony Kirkland
(The Enquirer/Malinda Hartong)
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Anthony Kirkland listens to the verdict being read by Judge Charles
Kubicki Jr. at the Hamilton
County Courthouse in Cincinnati.
(The Enquirer/Amanda Davidson)
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Anthony Kirkland
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Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Charles Kubicki, Jr.,
followed a jury's recommendation
and sentenced Anthony Kirkland to death for killing two teen-age
girls.
(The Enquirer/Carrie Cochran)
The victims
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(Clockwise from top left): Kimya Rolison, Esme Kenney, Mary Jo
Newton
and Casonya "Sharee" Crawford.