MOBILE, Ala. ( WKRG ) — A Mobile County jury voted 11 to 1 in favor of the death penalty just one day after Marco Perez was found guilty of capital murder in the 2019 incident that left Mobile police officer Sean Tuder dead.
The decision comes just one day after Perez was found guilty on Thursday. The hearing for Perez’s sentence began Thursday afternoon right after he was found guilty of capital murder.
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The prosecution argued for the jury to vote in favor of the death penalty, which requires 10 of the 12 jurors to vote in favor.
Meanwhile, the defense pushed the jury to vote in favor of life in prison because he would ultimately still die in custody.
Perez, 24, was 19 when he killed Tuder at Peach Place Inn.
Defense witnesses
The defense brought six people to the stand to push for Perez to not be sentenced to death.
The first person was Francisco Perez, Marco’s father. He explained to the jury how he found out his son was accused of murdering a police officer. He showed pictures of his children when they were young and pleaded for his son’s life.