Posted on 11/14/2014 7:54:50 AM PST by heartwood
RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) — A man who, with three accomplices, tormented and killed a Marine sergeant and his wife during a home invasion robbery near Murrieta was sentenced Friday to death. Kesaun Kedron Sykes, 27, was convicted in August in the 2008 slayings of 26-year-old Quiana Faye Jenkins-Pietrzak and her husband, 24-year-old Janek Pietrzak. The six-man, six-woman jury that found Sykes guilty recommended the death penalty and Riverside County Superior Court Judge Christian Thierbach followed that recommendation in Friday’s sentencing. Sykes is the last of four ex-Marines to be sentenced in the Oct. 15, 2008 killings. Last year, three members of Janek Pietrzak’s helicopter maintenance squadron at Camp Pendleton — Kevin Darnell Cox and Tyrone Lloyd Miller, both 27, along with 25-year-old Emrys Justin John — were convicted. Cox and Miller were sentenced to death, while John received two consecutive life prison terms.
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That’s how I read it as well.
VERY poor use of the English language.
It is a confusing headline. It would be more clear if it read, “Ex-Marine Sentenced to Death in Slaying of Sergeant and Wife”.
They are journalists, not English teachers, for God's sake! It's not like they communicate for a living, or anything...sheesh, you people /s
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Why did they have to sentence the wife to death?
Oh. Another foggy headline.
Indeed, may this beautiful couple RIP.
Even in non-liberal states, the death penalty has become a race between advancing age and the appeals process. As an example, here in Florida an execution was carried out just a day ago for a 1992 murder of the wife and rape & murder of a 10yo stepdaughter (22 years back). The (unworthy-to-be-named) murderer apologized to his victim's family before the execution was carried out by lethal injection(s).
Is it justice to wait 22 years for a penalty to be carried out? I cannot see it as being so and wonder if life imprisonment is a harder sentence if assured there is no parole. It certainly would be less expensive for the taxpayers.
The appeals process is designed to give the convicted murderer decades to appeal and delay the executioner. Tennessee has a death penalty but rarely carries out executions. Death row inmates have a bigger chance of dying of old age or disease than execution.
I don't worry about my grandkids.....I worry about my son....all it would take would for them to be in the wrong place and he'll be attacked....
human race is disgusting when you think about it...
Yes it is unfortunately. And no matter how old you get, you never stop worrying about your children. My two sons are in their 40's, and it seems I worry more about them now, then when they were young. God bless you and yours.
Bet it was racism.
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