Jurors in Cleveland, Ohio, have recommended that convicted black serial killer Anthony Sowell be sentenced to death

Cuyahoga County Judge Dick Ambrose read the recommendations in court. The judge can overrule those recommendations and impose a life sentence. Jurors had convicted Sowell of 11 counts of aggravated murder and more than 70 other charges, including abusing corpses and kidnapping. The convictions ended a saga that began in October 2009 with the discovery of the first two victims' remains inside Sowell's home in Cleveland. He eventually was accused of killing at least 11 women ranging in age from 25 to 52. Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty and the 12-person jury voted unanimously to recommend a death sentence be imposed for each of the slayings. In 2009, police found the bodies of 11 women at Sowell's Cleveland home - all of them strangled to death.