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Killer, rapist gets death penalty
A man convicted of one murder and multiple rapes, including one in Costa Mesa, will receive the death penalty. Waymon Livingston, 29, of Stanton, was convicted in February of one felony count of special-circumstances murder in the commission of sodomy,...Tags: Justice System, Trials, Murder, Orange County Superior Court, Criminals
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Mailbag: Death penalty would not have been right for Dorner
Re. "O.C. prosecutors likely to have sought death penalty for Dorner": Friday's article that the Orange County district attorney would have asked for the death penalty in the case of Christopher Dorner is a classic example of dumb and dumber. If you...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Flu, Orange County Register, Punishment
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Mailbag: The death penalty is not Christian
I lament the defeat of Proposition 34, the initiative that would have replaced the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole. As a pastor, Jesus' death is never far from my mind. State-sanctioned execution was wrong when Rome...Tags: Elections, Human Interest, Punishment, Politics
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Labor, religious leaders back Proposition 30
ORANGE — Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers President Kimberly Claytor joined Orange County clergy and organized labor leaders Wednesday to advocate for Proposition 30, which would raise taxes on high-income earners to pay for schools, and other...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Prisons, Teachers, Crime, Law and Justice, Event Planning
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Inmate facing execution in O.C. case commits suicide in San Quentin
An inmate sentenced to death hung himself in his cell at San Quentin State Prison over the weekend, officials announced on Tuesday. The inmate, James Lee Crummel, 68, is the 20th death row inmate to take his own life since California reinstated capital...
Tags: Prisons, Suicide, Punishment, Barbara Lee
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Convicted murderer, rapist faces death-penalty retrial
A new jury will decide whether a man convicted of raping and killing a pregnant Costa Mesa woman should receive the death penalty or life in prison. On Monday an Orange County Superior Court judge scheduled a retrial in the penalty phase of Jason Michael...Tags: Justice System, Murder, Criminals, Orange County Superior Court, Justice and Rights
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The God Squad: God does not promise an untroubled life
Question: I'm a Holocaust survivor who made it to the United States through the Dominican Republic by a big miracle. As time went by, I realized one thing: God did not let the Holocaust happen; we let it happen. Recently, I read a newspaper article about...Tags: Genesis (music group), Criminals, Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Juvenile Delinquency
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It's A Gray Area: Pursuing a truly lost cause
You have probably seen recent newspaper articles saying that the only U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental — the anesthetic that begins the three-drug process used in putting condemned prisoners to death — has announced that it was...Tags: Prosecution, California, Lawyers, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice
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D.A. seeks death penalty
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a Garden Grove man accused of executing a Costa Mesa man and his co-worker during a robbery last year in Stanton. Because of the seriousness of the alleged crime, and the nature of the slayings, a panel...Tags: Trials, Prosecution, Lawyers, Anaheim, Costa Mesa
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Man faces death for earlier conviction
The head of a deadly crime syndicate sentenced to life in federal prison earlier this month for robberies across California will be transferred to the state corrections system to face the death penalty for an earlier conviction, federal officials said....Tags: Justice System, Murder, Trials, California, Crimes
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Death penalty sought in double-killing case
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Daniel Wozniak, the Costa Mesa man accused of killing and beheading his neighbor then killing a friend of the neighbor to cover up the first crime, Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas announced...Tags: Sexual Assault, Prosecution, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Sex Crimes, Colleges and Universities
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Call on death penalty to wait
Prosecutors won't decide until after a preliminary hearing whether they should seek the death penalty against a Costa Mesa actor accused of killing two Orange Coast College students, officials said Wednesday. Daniel Wozniak, 26, is charged with two...Tags: Defense, Trials, Prosecution, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Lawyers
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