<p>Years after the slaying of her daughter Lita, Georgia state Rep. Jo Ann McClinton still dreams of her, dredging up deep memories that turn into chilling panic attacks.</p><p>"I dream of Lita often. Shes always at a distance. I can see her but never get to her. She is smiling and walking in my direction and I in hers. But we never reach each other," McClinton told jurors Monday during the sentencing hearing of millionaire James Sullivan.</p><p>"This was not in my planning that my daughter should precede me. It should be the other way around," McClinton said. "I ask for justice for my daughters killer."</p><p>James Sullivan was convicted Friday of arranging the fatal shooting of socialite Lita Sullivan, his 35-year-old second wife, on Jan. 16, 1987. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.</p><p>"For 19 years he has lived without facing any consequence, any punishment at all. Now it's different," prosecutor Anna Green told the jury. "Nineteen years is too long for there to be no consequence for a crime as heinous as this."</p><p>James Sullivan was convicted of malice murder, felony murder, burglary and two counts of aggravated assault. The jury has the option of sentencing Sullivan to death, life in prison without parole or life in prison with parole.</p><p>"I have looked forward to this day for many years. Should I forgive him? I cannot. Can I forgive him? I will not," McClinton said of James Sullivan.</p><p>Other relatives, some weeping, told jurors Lita Sullivan's death has caused them pain for nearly two decades.</p><p>James Sullivan, wearing a gray-brown suit, showed no emotion while family members testified, often holding his face in his left hand or chewing on the tip of his eyeglasses.</p><p>"My life is not as beautiful or as bright without her and I miss her," said Lita Sullivan's aunt, Valencia McClinton Nichols. "It still hurts that she's gone. It also has been devastating to me as I learned how and why she was murdered."</p><p>Sullivan's lawyer asked for mercy.</p><p>"You don't need to kill Jim Sullivan," defense attorney Josh Moore told the jury. "Part of Jim Sullivan is already dead. Your verdict ... ensured this man will die in a state prison."</p><p>The victim was shot to death on the doorstep of her Atlanta town house by a man carrying a dozen long-stemmed pink roses.</p><p>The murder occurred the same day a hearing was scheduled to discuss property distribution in the couple's divorce.</p><p>James Sullivan, 64, a Boston native who was once one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, was captured in Thailand in 2002, four years after he was indicted on state murder charges in 1998.</p><p>He was extradited to the United States in 2004 to face a second trial on charges stemming from the murder. Federal charges involving interstate use of a telephone to set up the murder were thrown out at trial in 1992. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that double jeopardy did not prevent Sullivan from being tried again in state court.</p><p>Prosecutors said the millionaire paid Phillip Harwood, a trucker who once moved some furniture for him to Palm Beach, $25,000 to kill his wife. Harwood, 55, of Albemarle, N.C., is serving a 20-year sentence for manslaughter after pleading guilty and admitting he killed Mrs. Sullivan. On the stand last week he denied being the triggerman.</p><p>Before the jury entered the courtroom, Judge John Coger denied a request to let James Sullivan's estranged brother, Frank, try to convince jurors that his brother should be executed for Lita Sullivan's murder.</p><p>"We did not reach out to Frank Sullivan, he reached out to us," prosecutor Green told the judge.</p><p>The trial started with jury selection on Jan. 5. The sentencing hearing is expected to last one day.</p>
