Created: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:21 p.m. CST
Updated: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:24 p.m. CST
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Brian Dugan sentenced to death

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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WHEATON – A DuPage County jury has decided that a convicted killer should be put to death for the 1983 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl Naperville girl.

The mother of Jeanine Nicarico gasped and put her hand over her mouth Wednesday as the bailiff read the verdict at Brian Dugan's sentencing hearing.

Jurors deliberated for 10 hours over two days before reaching their decision.

Dugan showed no apparent emotion as the verdict was read.

The 53-year-old pleaded guilty in July, hoping a jury would sentence him to life in prison.

He's been serving life sentences since 1985 for the unrelated murders of 27-year-old Geneva nurse Donna Schnorr and 7-year-old Melissa Ackerman of Somonauk.

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