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RICHMOND (AP) -- The man who killed Virginia's most notorious sex offender will serve 12? years in prison for the slaying. Dewey Keith "Frankie" Venable was sentenced last week for the Jan. 13, 2004, beating and strangulation of his cellmate, Richard Alvin Ausley, who was 64. Venable, 26, had been molested as a child and said he had warned a corrections officer not to put him in the same cell as Ausley at Sussex I State Prison, one of Virginia's most secure correctional facilities. Ausley gained notoriety in recent years as the offender who prompted a Virginia law that allows...