MOBILE, Ala. - A judge ordered a death sentence Thursday for a jobless shrimper convicted of murdering four young children by tossing them from an 80-foot-high bridge on the Alabama coast.
Circuit Judge Charles Graddick handed down the death sentence to Lam Luong and said he would order prison officials to show Luong photographs of the four children each day he is on death row.
Luong, 38, was convicted in March of killing the children on Jan. 7, 2008. A Vietnamese refugee, he was accused of dropping the four from atop the Dauphin Island Bridge after an argument with their mother, Kieu Phan, 23.
Man who threw kids off bridge gets death - Crime & courts- msnbc.com
I'll never understand what gets into people. The article says he turned and apologized to the kid's mother after he was sentenced. Too bad he couldn't apologize before he did this...