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No death penalty in Montana double murder

Worland man still faces life in prison

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department will not seek the death penalty against a Wyoming teenager accused of killing two people on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation.

The agency announced Friday that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had decided against seeking capital punishment in the case of Jesus Deniz Mendoza after consulting with federal prosecutors in Montana.

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