One pleads guilty in deaths at sea

One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter boat off Miami last September pleaded guilty in exchange for an agreement not to face the death penalty.

Kirby Logan Archer pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder, kidnapping, illegal seizure of a maritime vessel and other charges.

Prosecutors said Archer, 36, and Guillermo Zarabozo, 20, hired the charter boat Joe Cool to go to the Bahamas, then tried to divert it to Cuba. Zarabozo has pleaded not guilty and blamed Archer for killing the captain, his wife and two crew members.