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Scruggs Deliberations Continue

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Jury deliberations resumed Wednesday, on the penalty -- life in prison or death -- for admitted cop killer Rasheed Scruggs.

Defense attorney David Rudenstein put it bluntly: he is fighting for Rasheed Scruggs' life -- whether he will live or die.  He has argued that Scruggs accepted responsibility and showed remorse by pleading guilty, and he implored the jury to show mercy.

But prosecutor Edward McCann has told jurors that Scruggs ambushed two responding officers, firing from a gun hidden in his pocket and killing officer John Pawlowski.  He said Scruggs is an evil, remorseless killer of a police officer, and the evidence and law supports a death sentence.

Reported by Tony Hanson, KYW Newsradio

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