The costs at taxpayer expense -- all in the punishment phase -- total about 10 percent of the Gray County budget. But District Attorney Lynn Switzer said in a statement Monday that it was important to try King because relatives have the right "to confront the person who brutally murdered their loved ones while they slept."
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