Nicholas Jason Bryant's attorneys asked the Georgia Supreme Court Monday to toss his death sentence for the killing of 36-year-old Marie Richards because they said her sister made a clear "emotional" plea for capital punishment amid her testimony.
Bryant attorney John Harbin argued that the testimony amounted to a "carefully drafted early closing argument against mercy."
Prosecutors countered that the statements never crossed the line because they didn't explicitly call for capital punishment.
Bryant was sentenced to death in Douglas County in 2007 for the May 2004 killing of Richards and to life without parole for the killing of 68-year-old Billy Joe Kilgore.
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