Tallapoosa County assistant district attorney Kevin Hall said Friday the state has not decided if it will seek the death penalty against Nicholas Seth Harrison in the 2017 murder of Denzel Pope.
Circuit Judge Ray Martin asked Hall if the state had decided if it was going to seek the death penalty in the case.
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