Man who killed rival in 1988 may get sentence shortened
WEST PA L M B E AC H — F o r a moment, Circuit Judge Charles Burton stared at 46-year-old Kevin Thurmond as Thurmond spoke, as if he were studying the face of the convicted murderer who has been behind bars since he was 17.
Burton would later tell a prosecutor and Thurmond’s lawyers that he would take the next few wee k s t o d e c i d e whet h e r t o shorten Thurmond’s life sentence for the May 1988 shooting death of Johnny Anderson, whose only crime was to be the new boyfriend of the girl who had aborted Thurmond’s baby and broken up with him.
But on Monday afternoon, f a c e t o f a c e wi t h Thur mond after his family members and