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which jurors will decide whether McVay will die by lethal injection or will be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
• • McVay earlier pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murder in the 2011 stabbing of 75-year-old Maybelle Schein. McVay said he killed Schein and stole her car as part of his plan to drive to Washington and kill the president.
• • Jurors agreed with prosecutors that McVay's crime met two aggravating circumstances that would allow the state to impose a death sentence. The first deemed the offense outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman; the second found that defendant committed the offense for his own benefit or the benefit of another.
• • On Thursday, the jury will consider mitigating factors about why McVay's life should be spared.
• • Authorities say McVay walked away from a minimum-security prison in July 2011 in Sioux Falls and was mixing cough syrup and alcohol when he climbed under Schein's slightly open garage door, entered her house, killed her and drove off in her car.
• • After Schein's car was reported stolen, police used a tracking service in the vehicle to find McVay on Interstate 90 near Madison, Wis. He and he was arrested after a brief chase.
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Bosworth: Law intrudes between patient, doctor
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls physician running for U.S. Senate in South Dakota says patients and business owners have a great distrust of government intrusion related to the nation's new health care law.
• • Annette Bosworth, a political newcomer who operates a Sioux Falls-based private practice called Meaningful Medicine, said she wants to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. She favors a system that promotes tax cuts that expand private insurance coverage, opens the market to competition and protects the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship.
• • "The distance between the patient and the doctor continues to be filled with more rules and regulations," Bosworth said. "The greatest thing that's being compromised is their ability to trust the medical world."
• • Bosworth, 42, is one of five Republicans seeking the party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson.
• • Also seeking the GOP nomination in the June 3 primary are former Gov. Mike (Continued on page 18)
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