{"id":1316816,"date":"2024-04-25T05:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1316816"},"modified":"2024-04-27T07:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T12:22:58","slug":"1316816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1316816","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man sentenced to life for 2020 murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/2024-04-25_050232-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1316817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/2024-04-25_050232-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/2024-04-25_050232-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/2024-04-25_050232.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Cherokee County District Attorney said a Jacksonville man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of capital murder. According to our news partner KETK, Brandon Branton was charged with the 2020 stabbing murder of Randy P. Davenport. Davenport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body was reportedly found near Love\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lookout in July of 2020 and he was deemed the victim of an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153apparent homicide.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Branton was sentenced to life in prison without parole after eight days of testimony and deliberation, the district attorney said.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged alongside codefendant Ja\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Michael Rusk, whose case is still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEROKEE COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Cherokee County District Attorney said a Jacksonville man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of capital murder. According to our news partner KETK, Brandon Branton was charged with the 2020 stabbing murder of Randy P. Davenport. Davenport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body was reportedly found near Love\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1316816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jacksonville man sentenced to life for 2020 murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1316817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/2024-04-25_050232-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 05:05:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/2024-04-25_050232-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316821,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316816\/revisions\/1316821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1316817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}