 - [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] An Illinois prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for Darius Sullivan and Xandria Harris who are accused of injuring a police officer and killing another
- Illinois is not a death penalty state, but the U.S. Attorney General can authorizing a filing for the ultimate punishment under certain circumstances
- Sullivan and Harris are charged with shooting dead Bradley police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, 49, on Wednesday and wounding her partner, Officer Tyler Bailey, 27
- Rittimanic pleaded with the pair for her life before she was fatally shot
- According to Kankakee County State's Attorney Jim Rowe, her last words were 'you don't have to do this, please just go, please don't please don't'
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