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Death sentence for Keith Carey's murderer By ARTESIA DAVIS ~ NG Senior Reporter ~artesia@nasguard.com: A judge yesterday imposed the death penalty on the man found guilty of shooting and killing businessman Keith Carey during an armed robbery. Justice Jon Isaacs told Jamal Glinton that the court must send a message that it is "impermissible to murder defenseless, innocent victims." He said, "The object of punishment would not be achieved by any other sentence but the sentence of death." Glinton was sentenced to 30 years on the charge of armed robbery and 10 years for conspiracy to commit robbery. Those sentences will run concurrently. Glinton, who is nicknamed "Bumper", was the trigger-man in the plot to rob Carey outside the Bank of The Bahamas on the Tonique Williams-Darling Highway on February 27, 2006. According to the evidence, Glinton shot Carey at close range on the steps of the bank. Glinton already had the deposit bag that contained $40,000 when he shot Carey again while he was on the ground. Justice Isaacs said Glinton's sharing of the proceeds with his co-conspirators, Sean Brown and Dwight Knowles, showed that he did not care about his victim. This, according to Justice Isaacs, was "the true barbaric act." He said that Glinton did not act on greed alone, but his actions entered the "realm of brutality." Justice Isaacs noted that Glinton carried out the crime in the presence of witnesses and had not demonstrated any remorse for Carey's death. Cheryl Grant-Bethel, the deputy director of public prosecutions, had argued in favor of the death penalty on the grounds that the crime was "senseless, brutal and heinous to an unbelievable degree." Stephanie Pintard and Lennox Coleby also made up the prosecution team. But defense lawyer Craig Butler, who appeared with Devard Francis, argued that the death penalty was "barbaric and archaic." Butler also said that no one was beyond rehabilitation. Knowles was sentenced to 11 years for robbery and Brown was sentenced to 10 years on the same count on the date when they were convicted on April 9. Thursday, July 2, 2009