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Show FATHER AND SONS AGAIN HEAR DEATH SENTENCE. VALDOSTA. Ga., Dec 1L Crying out against their fate and reviling the Judge. J. G. Rawllngs, former Methodist preacher, and his two sons, Jesse and Milton, were yesterday resentenced to be hanged for the murder of the Carter children, their appeal to the Supreme court having failed and at tbe same time Leonard Rawllngs, the youngest boy, was sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary. ... The elder Rawllngs and Milton and Jesse took their sentences In a very bitter fashion, fash-ion, each declaring Innocence and expressing express-ing the belief that some day the truth would be known. The elder Rawllngs told the Judge to give him the death penalty and expressed the hope that he might "meet the Judge In hell' - Rawllngs also declared that he and his boys had been tried by a set ot "illiterate degenerates.' " |