October 13, 2009 5:48 PM
- Text
Carla Hughes Verdict: Teacher Found Guilty of Killing Pregnant Avis Banks to Steal Her Fiance
(AP Photo/Clarion-Ledger, Joe Ellis)
CANTON, Miss. (CBS/AP) Carla Hughes, a former Jackson school teacher, has been convicted of capital murder for killing a pregnant woman so she could be with the woman's fiance.
A Madison County jury convicted Hughes on Tuesday. She faces the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole for the slaying of Avis Banks and her unborn child.
Prosecutors say Hughes killed Banks at her Ridgeland home so she could be with Keyon Pittman.
Pittman and Hughes were having a sexual relationship and taught at the same Jackson school.
Banks was shot in the leg, buttock and head and then stabbed in the face and neck on Nov. 29, 2006, in the garage of the Ridgeland home she and Pittman shared.
2 Comments +
Popular Now in Crime
- Fla. police identify 'face-chewing' victim
- Synthetic "bath salts" plague police, doctors
- Dennis Rodman sentenced in family court
- Neighbor: Fla. "face-chewer" was a"quiet boy"
- Dharun Ravi gives up right to remain free
- Doctors assess mental state of Patz suspect
- Detroit woman gives birth, days after being shot
- Calif. death row inmate found hanging in cell
- "Cake Boss" kin sentenced for child sex assault
- W.Va. man arrested in quadruple murder
- Porn actress pleads guilty to sex party slaying
- Jeremy Aikman and Porn Star Wife Janine Lindemulder Battle Sandra Bullock for Custody of Kids
- Cops: Little connection in Spierer, Shunick cases
- Porn Stars Accused of Sledgehammer Murder
- Dharun Ravi will turn himself in Thursday
- Bianca Jones' father to stand trial for murder
