Calif. trucker gets death for 4 killings

[LiberalNation]

Good, he deserves it. The moratorium on that's state death sentence is bullshit. He'll get a far "nicer" death than his victims either way.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/...8xv3FRhbtvzwcF

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A former truck driver convicted of killing four women and dumping their mutilated bodies across California has been sentenced to death.

Before imposing the death sentence on Wayne Adam Ford on Friday, Superior Court Judge Michael Smith denied defense motions requesting a new trial or a sentence more lenient than the death sentence a jury recommended last August.

Ford, who was mostly expressionless during the hour-long hearing, was convicted last June of four counts of first-degree murder for the 1997 and 1998 killings.

Ford, 45, was arrested in November 1998 after he walked into a sheriff's station in Northern California with a woman's severed breast and told authorities it represented the "tip of the iceberg."

He was convicted of killing two California women, Patricia Tamez and Lanett Deyon White, a Las Vegas woman, Tina Renee Gibbs, and an unidentified woman whose torso was found in a slough.

In a pre-sentencing report made public after the hearing, Ford apologized to the victims and their families but said he was not guilty of first-degree murder.

"There was no struggling and no pain inflicted upon the victims," the report quoted Ford as saying. "All acts and activities were consensual. Anything that might have appeared to be painful or torturous was done post-mortem."

Ford was also quoted as saying: "Most serial killers are proud of their work — not me."

The case will be automatically appealed.

California is under a death penalty moratorium as its lethal injection method has been found unconstitutional. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered a new injection protocol to ensure that the condemned do not suffer unnecessary pain when executed.

[Roomy]

Good, he deserves it. The moratorium on that's state death sentence is bullshit. He'll get a far "nicer" death than his victims either way.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/...8xv3FRhbtvzwcF

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A former truck driver convicted of killing four women and dumping their mutilated bodies across California has been sentenced to death.

Before imposing the death sentence on Wayne Adam Ford on Friday, Superior Court Judge Michael Smith denied defense motions requesting a new trial or a sentence more lenient than the death sentence a jury recommended last August.

Ford, who was mostly expressionless during the hour-long hearing, was convicted last June of four counts of first-degree murder for the 1997 and 1998 killings.

Ford, 45, was arrested in November 1998 after he walked into a sheriff's station in Northern California with a woman's severed breast and told authorities it represented the "tip of the iceberg."

He was convicted of killing two California women, Patricia Tamez and Lanett Deyon White, a Las Vegas woman, Tina Renee Gibbs, and an unidentified woman whose torso was found in a slough.

In a pre-sentencing report made public after the hearing, Ford apologized to the victims and their families but said he was not guilty of first-degree murder.

"There was no struggling and no pain inflicted upon the victims," the report quoted Ford as saying. "All acts and activities were consensual. Anything that might have appeared to be painful or torturous was done post-mortem."

Ford was also quoted as saying: "Most serial killers are proud of their work — not me."

The case will be automatically appealed.

California is under a death penalty moratorium as its lethal injection method has been found unconstitutional. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered a new injection protocol to ensure that the condemned do not suffer unnecessary pain when executed.

This time next week a 'better' serial killer will take his place in the public eye.

[LiberalNation]

Maybe, right now it's the child sex offender killers that get the most attention tho. 6 year old dead boy story is renewing that debate.

[Roomy]

Maybe, right now it's the child sex offender killers that get the most attention tho. 6 year old dead boy story is renewing that debate.

Always the case, kids, women, elderly, police force etc etc