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Justice Department officials would then make a final decision of whether to seek execution by late January.

Mr. Ashcroft did order federal prosecutors in Brooklyn to seek execution, although they had recommended against it.

In his nearly 25 years as the state's attorney in New Haven, Michael Dearington, now 68, has decided to seek execution twice.

But after Mr. Ashcroft directed the prosecutors to seek execution, they added new charges in March, accusing Mr. Dixon of another murder.

In any event, the decision whether to seek execution of Mr. Hanssen will ultimately be made by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

In the Connecticut case, the Justice Department surprised lawyers for two defendants in late January by notifying them that federal prosecutors there would seek execution.

Mr. Ashcroft has stirred a controversy in federal prosecutors' offices nationally in recent months by insisting that they seek executions in some cases in which they had recommended against it.

But prosecutors had already decided against seeking execution.

Instead, Socrates actively sought execution, perhaps well aware that martyrdom would bring him immortality.

In the past, former federal prosecutors say, questions about the credibility of a central witness have often been considered reasons against seeking execution.

But Mr. Kelly said that the letter was not a formal rejection of Ms. DeAngelis's assertion that she was seeking execution and that the status of the case was now remarkably murky.