Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton police detective accused of killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore while she was pregnant.

Farwell was indicted last year on charges that he allegedly strangled Birchmore to death in her Canton apartment Feb. 1, 2021 and staged the scene to appear as though she took her own life, according to documents released after the federal investigation last year .

Birchmore was between eight and 10 weeks pregnant with a male fetus, prosecutors have said. Farwell pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of causing the death of a child in utero in October .

U.S. Attorney Leah Foley filed a single-sentence notice in court Tuesday that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed prosecutors “not to seek t

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