Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against one of two people accused of sexually assaulting and killing an elementary school math teacher.
Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman said Friday that Thomas Moore, 25, tortured Nicole Mathewson and killed her after committing multiple felonies.
Those factors, Stedman said, are aggravating circumstances that warrant capital punishment.
Moore's 16-year-old co-defendant, Marcus Rutter, can't face the death penalty because of his age, Stedman said.
Moore and Rutter are charged with homicide, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, burglary, robbery and other offenses in the Dec. 15 killing at Mathewson's home on North Franklin Street in Lancaster.
Moore's lawyer has said his client isn't responsible for Mathewson's death.
Mathewson, 32, taught sixth-grade math at Brownstown Elementary School near Ephrata. Police said she'd been home alone, and Moore and the teen didn't know her.
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