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Offline IsailedawayfromFR

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Here's one California man who didn't understand we still have the death penalty here and he will pay for it.

What I do not understand is why it took 5 years for him to get this verdict.

Houston • A man who said voices in his head told him to kill six members of his ex-wife’s family in Texas, including four children, was found guilty of capital murder Thursday by a jury that rejected his insanity defense.

A seventh family member testified at trial that Ronald Lee Haskell forced her, her parents and siblings to lie face down on the living room floor in their suburban Houston home before shooting them one by one.

Cassidy Stay, then 15, was shot in the head in her uncle's 2014 attack. She said she only survived by playing dead.

Now 20, Stay bowed her head and clasped her hands as if in prayer before the verdict was read Thursday. Afterward, she wiped away tears and smiled as she hugged prosecutors in the Houston courtroom. In a loud whisper, Stay told one of them: "We did it."


https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2019/09/26/texas-jurors-deliberate/
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