[TheDon]

"He will become the 60th convicted murderer from Orange County on Death Row among more than 700 inmates statewide awaiting execution, according to the California Department of Corrections website."

Let's have a catch up week....10 executions per day.

[TheDon]

Tom Egan, center, with his wife, A..J., and their twin daughters, Jenna, left, and Katie, right.

[FlingWingFlyer]

California needs to get with the program.

[Steely Tom]

I’d prefer he get the Terminal I.V., but spending the rest of his life in a 6 x 10 foot cinderblock box isn’t any bed of roses either.

[TheBattman]

Come on - lets be honest - how many of these vermin have been executed in California in the last 20 years or so?

[dangus]

The Home Depot killer... not well liked in ORANGE County.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Is it always first come first served?

[ApplegateRanch]

A convicted killer raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips Wednesday when an Orange County jury announced that he should receive the death penalty

Well he should raise his eyebrows at that sentence! Cut a little slack, and show some mercy. It IS a first offense--he never killed anyone before.

And he was always kind to his mother, even when she abused him by refusing to buy him puppys and kitties to torture as a child.

And he was in the process of turning his life around, when the damned Republicans in Sacremento forced a tuition increase that left him no alternative except robbing to get the extra money needed to continue his night school classes in locksmithing...

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thank you, jurors....you did the right thing!!

[muir_redwoods]

Maybe CA can outsource the work to TX and get it done.

[sirchtruth]

Jason Russell Richardson, 40, convicted last year of first-degree murder plus special circumstances for the shooting death of Tom Egan,

Let me get this straight. Richardson murders Egan in Feb 2007 and Richardson just got convicted last year? 3 years to try and convict?

What's really wrong with this picture?

[Haiku Guy]

On the other side of the courtroom, defense attorneys George Peters and Richard Schwartzberg were somber.

"I've been doing this (defending in death penalty cases) for 27 years, and his upbringing was the worst I have ever seen." Peters said.

He argued to the jury that Richardson was the product of brutal childhood. He was raised by an alcoholic grandmother and a drug-addicted mother who gravitated toward violent men. Richardson's mother also became involved with the Hell's Angels when he was a child.

Hey, I'm depraved on account I'm deprived.

Richardson killed Egan when he was thirty-seven years old. At some point, you just gotta get over you upbringing.

[onyx]

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