If convicted and Vega receives the death penalty, he will have at least 15 years before the sentence is carried out.
The death penalty should come a heck of a lot quicker.
There never was a savage defendant that an American judge could not ultimately sympathize with. In our society the socially conscious intuitively side with the criminal element. The more savage the defendant the greater the pity one feels for him. One might call it “Pathological Pity!
It will be reduced to Life Imprisonment or less for something like “Mental Duress”. Folks just don’t believe the scriptures anymore “Thou shalt not suffer a murderer to live”