[Daaave]

"Lawyers for Mikhel, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, and Kadamovas, a Lithuanian, argued unsuccessfully that their clients should have received life in prison rather than death. They said the two were affected by having grown up under a communist government, contending that they learned they had to be criminals to survive."

"Court papers said one of the kidnappers boasted that the group would continue its money-making plan until the bodies they dropped in the reservoir near Yosemite National Park were “stacked on top of each other.”

[festus]

"said the two were affected by having grown up under a communist government, "

Yah but they didn't grow up in CA they grew up in the Soviet Union so that argument fell flat .....

;-)