X-box Murders Ringleader Sentenced to Death

Associated Press. ^ | September 21, 2006

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DAYTONA BEACH, FL (AP) -- A judge delivered death sentences Thursday to the ringleader and a participant in the bloody beating deaths of six people over an Xbox video game system.

Troy Victorino, 29, and Jerone Hunter, 20, were sentenced by Chief Circuit Judge Bill Parsons after their convictions on first-degree murder for the 2004 slaughter of six people in a Deltona house. Neither man showed emotion when the verdicts were read.

A jury recommended death for both Hunter and the 6-foot-7, 270-pound Victorino, but the final decision of life in prison without parole or death rested with Parsons.

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Kudos to Florida.

[Abathar]

Good, now follow through with it before they pass away of old age...

[goldstategop]

I guess the X-box was worth killing for. People kill for less and they kill for more.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[mtbopfuyn]

Hunter's attorney Ed Mills, who had argued his client should not received the death penalty because he suffers from schizophrenia. Jeff Dowdy, Victorino's attorney, had asked Parsons to spare his client because he has mental problems and was abused as a child.

Boo hoo. Ya know, I had to clean my room when I was a kid. What kind of free pass does that get me?

[Eye of Unk]

Its going to be worse when the PS3 comes out next month.