Jury out on fate of teen sniper

JURORS returned for a second day of deliberations yesterday on the fate of teenage sniper Lee Malvo, who could receive the death penalty for his role in last year’s string of Washington, DC, area killings.

The jury of eight women and four men convicted 18-year-old Malvo last week on two counts of capital murder for shooting FBI analyst Linda Franklin, 47, as she loaded her car outside a Virginia store on October 14, 2002.

The murder was typical of the series of shootings, which killed 10 people and injured three others. Malvo’s accomplice, John Muhammad, 42, was sentenced to death last month for another of the killings.