Zhukov
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It took too long (should have shot him outright) but the correct decision was made.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5160175,00.html
Runnion's Killer Receives Death Sentence
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A judge Friday formally sentenced to death the man who kidnapped and murdered 5-year-old Samantha Runnion in a case that led to the expansion of abduction alerts on electronic billboards along state freeways.
"You're a disgrace to the human race,'' the girl's mother, Erin Runnion, tearily told Alejandro Avila in court. "... Everything in me wants to hurt you in every possible way.''
A jury convicted the 30-year-old former factory worker in April and voted for the death penalty in May. Judge William R. Froeberg endorsed the recommendation.
Avila snatched the kicking and screaming girl as she played outside her Stanton home. Her nude body was found the next day about 50 miles away, left on the ground as if it had been posed. Authorities said she had been sexually assualted and suffocated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5160175,00.html