BARTOW Convicted double-murderer Cheyanne Jessie could learn her fate on Friday afternoon death by lethal injection or life in prison.
Circuit Court Judge Jalal Harb is scheduled to sentence Jessie for repeatedly stabbing and shooting her 6-year-old daughter, Meredith, and her 50-year-old father, Mark Weekly, in July 2015. Prosecutors say she killed both so she could be with her boyfriend, who was going to break up with her over her volatile relationship with the little girl.
A jury convicted her four years later almost to the day of both murders and recommended the death penalty in the killing of her daughter. However, they recommended life in prison for the murder of her father in their west Drane Field Road home.