I'm hearing sound bites on the radio of the mom talking to Avila. She was quite elequent.
So far, though, only this AP text story is circulating on the Internet. Anybody have a more comprehensive link yet?
Here's an excerpt from the article @
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4758312/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news:
"I know she looked at you with those amazing brown eyes and you still wanted to kill her," Samantha's mother, Erin Runnion, tearily told Alejandro Avila in court before the sentencing. "And I don't understand it, and I never will. It's like you never learned to think. You have absolutely no concept of how heinous, how egregious your acts were. I can't help but wonder how it is you survived as long as you did, being so stupid."