Posted on 08/13/2016 11:40:41 AM PDT by Sheapdog
The serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that went unsolved for years as the body count grew in a poor section of Los Angeles haunted by the scourge of crack cocaine.
The moment of reckoning for Lonnie Franklin Jr. came after those whose lives were altered by his violence questioned how he could have been so cruel and shown so little remorse.
"You are truly a piece of evil," said Enietra Washington, who managed to survive after being shot and testified against him at trial. "You're right up there with Manson."
'Grim Sleeper' to be put to death for brutally murdering 10 women
The killings occurred over more than two decades and community members complained that police didn't seriously investigate them because the victims were black and poor and many were drug users and prostitutes.
Franklin was linked at trial to 14 slayings, including four women he wasn't charged with killing. Police have said he may have had as many as 25 victims.
Franklin, 63, avoided suspicion for decades, working as a city trash collector and onetime garage attendant for Los Angeles police. He denied any role in the killings to investigators but didn't utter a word in his defense during his lengthy trial or address the judge at sentencing. His attorneys had suggested a mystery man was the real killer.
Judge Kathleen Kennedy, a 28-year veteran of the court, said she concluded Franklin preyed on defenseless women because of deep-seated hatred toward them.
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He’ll die of old age sitting on Death Row.
Justice?
put to death In california lmao
Trial took 6 years? Guy had dozens and dozens of Polaroid pictures of his victims. Where is the media on this perfect example of a black serial killer?
Just tie the piece of crap to a post where we can get at him. We’ll take care of what the “justice” system is afraid to do.
Judge Kathleen Kennedy, a 28-year veteran of the court, said she concluded Franklin preyed on defenseless women because of deep-seated hatred toward them.
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Doubtful. Serial killers don’t care much who they kill, so long as they are successful and get away to kill again. I’m not surprised that the female judge is trying to make a political statement out of it, though.
You’re just RAAAACIST for wanting the MSM to publicize this story!
Besides, it doesn’t fit the narrative.
He’ll die of old age only if Moonbeam or one of his successors doesn’t pardon him or the “Innocence Project” doesn’t manufacture witnesses and evidence to overturn the conviction.
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Right.
WRONG, Bucko!
Serial killers usually have a definite and strong sexual preference in victims, because they are acting out some sort of revenge in their minds. Many hate their mommies.
He could claim that the judge injected religion into his trial by depicting him as evil over good, which cannot be described objectively without reference to God.
The whacked-out California court system would likely buy it.
He’ll be an old, old man before death is ever administered. Disgusting.
What about the history of serial killers who went in to the medical profession because it gave them a means to kill and get away with it?
He is 63 years old. There is no way he will be executed before dying of natural causes.
“o long as they are successful and get away to kill again.”
Then why didn’t he kill any men?
It wasn’t the judge who called him evil, it was the victim who survived his shooting.
Then, bye.
Men would be more difficult for him to lure and put up more of a fight.
A lot of serial killers start with animals, because it’s mostly about the killing.
“Where is the media on this perfect example of a black serial killer?”
Out looking to pin it on whitey most likely.
Most serial killers do target victims by a criteria - that's how they become to be known as "serial killers". That "criteria" is constructed by things such as you described.
This sets them apart from "thrill kill" types which are opportunistic making it difficult to recognize a pattern.
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