SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento County prosecutors on Friday said they will seek the death penalty for a second time against Adel Ramos, who in August pleaded guilty to the 2019 ambush murder of Sacramento police officer Tara O'Sullivan.
The decision comes after a jury in November deadlocked on the question of whether Ramos, 51, should be put to death for killing O'Sullivan in a bloody ambush that rocked the Sacramento region, leading Superior Court Judge James Arguelles to declare a mistrial.
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