The man who was accused of shooting and killing two women nearly two years ago at NHK in Frankfort will escape the death penalty. Tuesday morning, Gary Cecil Ferrell II pled guilty to two counts of murder. As a result of that plea agreement, all other charges were dropped against Ferrell and the death penalty is off the table.
Clinton County Prosecutor Tony Sommer had originally pushed for the death penalty. Both parties reached this agreement after Ferrell raised the defense of intellectual disability to the death penalty. He killed co-workers 21 year old Promise Mays and her grandmother, 62 year old Pamela Sled both from Rossville, in the NHK plant’s parking lot as they arrived about 4:15 that Wednesday afternoon.
Sentencing is tentatively set for an all-day hearing on August 30, 2023 in Superior Court.