WASHINGTON, Aug 1: A lawyer for a Pakistani man accused of killing two CIA workers and wounding three others in a 1993 shooting spree near the spy agency's headquarters challenged the use of the death penalty in the case.

Public defender Richard Goemann, representing the accused shooter, Mir Aimal Kansi, filed a motion seeking to declare the Virginia death penalty law unconstitutional and to bar imposition of the death penalty in the case. Kansi, 33, was apprehended in Pakistan by FBI agents.

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