<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Brian Nichols: News &amp; Videos about Brian Nichols - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Brian_Nichols</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Brian Nichols from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:28:16 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Brian Nichols: News &amp; Videos about Brian Nichols - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2008/CRIME/12/13/nichols.sentence/tztop.nichols.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Brian_Nichols</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Brian Nichols from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Judge gives courthouse killer life without 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weighs fate of courthouse killer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/10/nichols.death.penalty/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/10/nichols.death.penalty/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A jury began a second day of deliberations Wednesday for Brian Nichols, convicted last month in the 2005 shooting deaths of four people, including three at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Courthouse killer's life is in the jury's hands</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/09/nichols.death.penalty/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/09/nichols.death.penalty/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A jury spent Tuesday deliberating the fate of Brian Nichols for the 2005 shooting deaths of four people, including three at a downtown Atlanta courthouse, without reaching a verdict.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:51:00 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