A jury decided Tuesday that a convicted killer deserves to be executed for the murders of five people in a small-town bank last year. The same jury that found Jose Sandoval guilty last week of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four bank employees and a customer said aggravating circumstances merited Sandoval’s death by electrocution. A jury also found the death penalty was warranted for one of the three other defendants in the case. Judicial panels still must sentence the men, and could choose life imprisonment instead. Two other men await trial, also on five counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutor Joe Smith argued that Sandoval enjoyed the killings at the U.S. Bank branch in Norfolk so much that he smiled as they were happening and again for a police photographer hours later. His enjoyment contributed to the killings being especially cruel and heinous - a requirement that makes Sandoval eligible for death. Sandoval’s attorney, Madison County Public Defender Harry Moore, said all the photo showed was insensitivity. ``It’s just evidence of being a little bit uncaring,’’ he said.
And Uday was a little insensitive towards women. |