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Pennsylvania man sentenced to death for 2007 double homicide
A person has been sentenced to demise once more following a retrial for the slaying of two folks in a suburban Philadelphia condo greater than a decade in the past.
Alfonso Sanchez, 41, was sentenced Wednesday by the identical Bucks County jury that convicted him of first-degree homicide Monday within the 2007 capturing deaths of 27-year-old Lisa Diaz and 22-year-old Mendez Thomas in Warminster, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
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Prosecutors mentioned Sanchez killed the victims over cash that he believed he was owed for cocaine. He was additionally convicted of trying to orchestrate a plot whereas behind bars to have a witness killed to forestall her from testifying — and might be sentenced in a while that conviction and others.
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to demise for capturing and killing two folks in a suburban Philadelphia condo in 2007.
Sanchez was additionally convicted within the double homicide in 2008 however the appellate division of the district lawyer’s workplace present in a evaluate of his attraction that prosecutors had failed to show over lab studies of DNA testing that might have aided his protection.
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Prosecutors mentioned the demise penalty was warranted as a result of there have been a number of victims, different folks have been endangered, and different felonies have been concerned associated to medicine and in addition to housebreaking. Authorities mentioned he had tricked his means into the condo beneath the guise of shopping for marijuana.
District Lawyer Matt Weintraub mentioned he was “ecstatic” to have the ability to convey the case to an in depth “for the household after they waited patiently for 16 years,” The Inquirer reported. Protection attorneys, who had argued {that a} codefendant dedicated the murders, declined to remark past saying that they revered the jury’s determination.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro has referred to as on state lawmakers to repeal the demise penalty, and mentioned he received’t signal demise warrants and can challenge reprieves on scheduled executions, extending his predecessor’s insurance policies. Since 1978, when capital punishment was reinstated in Pennsylvania, solely three individuals who dropped appeals have been executed.