... trusted to show up for court appearances and he noted that Carpenter has no criminal record. Carpenter, 38, and Joshua Macabe Brown, 22, were each charged with capital murder and six counts of rape in the Sept. 26 death of Jesse Dirkhising.

BENTONVILLE (AP) -- Joshua Macabe Brown wouldn't look at the jurors who will decide whether he lives or dies. Instead, he turned his chair to the wall as they listened ...

... killing a 13-year-old boy. Prosecutors say they seized more than 150 pieces of evidence from the Rogers home of Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, and Davis Don Carpenter, 39, who are charged with rape and capital murder in the Sept. 26, 1999, murder ...

BENTONVILLE -- In a taped interview with police, Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, referred to a 13-year-old boy he's charged with raping and murdering as his "on-the-side lover." Brown is charged ...

... killing a 13-year-old boy because the defendant acknowledged the boy died during an hours-long sexual assault. Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, is charged with rape and murder in the Sept. 26, 1999, death of Jesse Dirkhising. Brown's roommate ...

... degree murder Thursday in the death of a 13-year-old boy who was raped and sodomized at the man's apartment. Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, faces up to life in prison for the death. The jurors voted Wednesday to convict Brown on a rape charge ...

... watch, with jailers checking on him four times an hour to ensure he didn't try to hurt himself. Jurors convicted Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, of rape and first-degree murder. They imposed a 25-year sentence on the rape charge Thursday night ...

... old boy shows the man was of "above average intelligence" and capable of rational thought. Defense lawyers for Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, argued during a week-long trial that Brown was "slow" and unintelligent and that he was manipulated into ...

... over a period of hours. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Carpenter's roommate and homosexual lover, Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, was convicted of first-degree murder and rape in the same case and sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors ...

... until after his plea bargain was approved. Prosecutors say Carpenter choreographed an assault in which his lover, Joshua Macabe Brown, drugged the boy, bound him with duct tape and nylon rope, gagged him with a pair of dirty underwear and raped ...