Court upholds killer’s death sentence

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the death sentence against a man who killed a woman and her 14-year-old son in their east Cobb County home.

Lawrence Rice sits on death row for the April 17, 2003, killings of Connie Mincher and her son, Ethan, a Pope High School freshman. The two victims sustained multiple wounds that a medical examiner found to be consistent with being struck repeatedly by a hatchet. Rice had a longstanding vendetta against Mincher’s husband, who once employed Rice at an Atlanta video company, prosecutors said.