A month after jurors found a 30-year-old man guilty of killing another man outside a North Miami motel in 2013, those same jurors began hearing testimony on Tuesday in a penalty phase where they will soon need to recommend a punishment of life in prison without parole or death.
In April, 30-year-old Anthawn Ragan was found guilty of murdering 21-year-old Luis Perez at Motel 7 at 13445 Northwest 7th Avenue.
After successfully convincing jurors Ragan was a sophisticated planned killer who was caught on video shooting Perez, they will now try to get jurors to choose death as a punishment recommendation to Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez, who will have the ultimate say on sentencing…