Sentencing deliberations are underway in Dalton for a woman convicted of poisoning her boyfriend with anti-freeze. Defense lawyers called only two witnesses Monday to testify on behalf of Lynn Turner. One of them was Turner’s mother, Helen Gregory, who pleaded with the jury to spare her daughter’s life. Gregory said the two children Turner had with the victim, Randy Thompson, need contact with their mother, even from behind prison walls. This is the same jury that took only a few hours Saturday to convict Turner of poisoning Thompson with anti-freeze in 2001. She is already serving a life sentence for poisoning her husband, Cobb County Police officer Glenn Turner, with antifreeze in 1995. The prosecution called no witnesses during Moday’s hearing. The jury could deliver Turner’s sentence as early as Tuesday. If jurors sentence Turner to death, she will become just the second woman on death row in the state.
