State questions one witness for 12 minutes in the sentencing phase of Carla Hughes Trial. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Carla Hughes. A Madison County jury now must decide between the death penalty and life in prison without parole for convicted murderer Carla Hughes. Her trial is being held in Canton, Mississippi. Hughes has been found guilty of stabbing and shooting Avis Banks and her unborn baby. Banks was murdered outside her Ridgeland, Mississippi home in November 2006.
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