Photo provided by the Macon County Sheriff's Office in Decatur, Ill.
The same federal jury that last month convicted a former University of Illinois doctoral student of kidnapping, torturing and killing a visiting scholar from China will now be asked to decide if the man should be executed.
Prosecutors will argue today that Brendt Christensen should be put to death for the 2017 kidnapping and death of Yingying Zhang.
Defense attorneys will ask that Christensen be sentenced to life without parole. The 30-year-old Christensen might testify. And in an effort to save his life, he could possibly reveal what he did with Zhang’s body, which has never been found.
