Posted on 01/30/2007 11:46:34 AM PST by XR7
King County prosecutor Norm Maleng says he will seek the death penalty for Conner Schierman who is accused of killing four people in Kirkland last summer.
Maleng said he deliberated for ten days after receiving a mitigation packet from Schierman's defense attorneys. The packet included information about Schierman's mental health history.
Prosecutors filed the notice to seek the death penalty at a hearing in King County Superior Court this morning.
Schierman, 25, is accused of killing his neighbor Olga Milkin; her sister Lyubov Botvina; and Milkin's two small sons, Justin and Andrew, on July 17 and then setting their Kirkland house on fire.
The violence of the Kirkland murders shocked that quiet suburb.
After the hearing, Milkin's husband, Leonid Milkin, a sergeant in the Army National Guard, said that Schierman needs to be held accountable.
"I think the death penalty in this case would be appropriate," he said.
He said even if Schierman is convicted and sentenced to death, it won't bring closure for him. He'll only be happy when he sees his family in heaven.
King County deputy prosecutor Scott O'Toole said that Maleng did take in account the fact that he didn't seek the death penalty in the case of the Green River serial killer Gary Ridgway.
"At the end of the day, he decided this is a decision that should be placed before a jury," O'Toole said...
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Pray for Sergeant Milkin.
Who gives a rat's ass about his mental history?
If he's sane, hang 'im.
If he's crazy, hang 'im!
Shoot the prick, sane or insane, people can still use his organs...
I would never want those organs. Ptaugh!
Are you serious... you wouldn't have a choice, they wouldn't tell you set A is from a serial killer, set B is from a virgin saint...
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