Homeless madman accused of brutally killing great-grandmother on MARTA train could face death penalty

Source: New York Post

The homeless lunatic accused of viciously stabbing great-grandmother Margaret Swan to death during a random attack on an Atlanta train could face the death penalty after being hit with a new federal charge. John Elijah Matthews, 25, is now facing one federal count of committing an act of violence causing death on a mass transportation system after allegedly slashing the 66-year-old victim’s throat and then stabbing her nearly two dozen times on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Saturday morning. Matthews, from Decatur, Georgia, faces life behind bars or the death penalty if convicted of the new charge, which was announced late Tuesday.