Posted on 03/04/2020 2:21:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
The defense team of Joseph DeAngelo has verified that the accused serial killer has offered to plead guilty to the charges against him if he could get a lifetime sentence.
DeAngelo, the suspected murderer and rapist known as the Golden State Killer and the East Area Rapist, is accused of killing at least 13 people, raping upward of 50 women and burglarizing dozens of homes in the 1970s and '80s.
He is slated to appear in Sacramento County court March 12.
The former police officer was arrested in Citrus Heights in 2018, thanks to DNA technology, after decades of eluding authorities. DNA submitted to a public database commonly used for genealogy was used to link DeAngelo to the cold cases.
I thought there wasn’t a death penalty in CA.
“NA submitted to a public database commonly used for genealogy was used to link DeAngelo to the cold cases.”
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If memory serves, they used relative’s DNA info to triangulate things to him.
No, there is. In fact, CA has lot’s of people on death row. But no one has been executed since 2006. But it’s not pleasant to be on death row. Scott Peterson would be an example of someone.
“I thought there wasn’t a death penalty in CA.”
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Stopped in the 70s Manson era, but was reinstated. Current guv has stopped executions, tho.
Well, IF he truly confesses, CA will probably make an AG or a rat congressman.
Newsom put in a moratorium, but it had been 13 years anyway.
But the Prison Industrial Complex is alive an "well"...
killing at least 13 people, raping upward of 50 women
Screw the life sentence, they should turn this guy into a raisin.
This is precisely why all states should keep the death penalty. It convinces perps to fess up in order to avoid it.
I think a lifetime sentence is a good idea - as long as it’s a lifetime in solitary confinement.
*** least 13 people ***
lifetime no parole.
we find one more victim ? fair trial, then hanging.
Genealogical DNA rocks!
He’ll never see the needle anyway because he’s already 74. But I’m against any deal for the SOB. If anyone deserves the death penalty, it’s him.
Not just death row, ask Jeffrey Epstein (who didn’t commit suicide).
Well, he needs to vote in November
I’m not sure he cares who is president anymore.
Ex-Cop? Rapist? Put him in the general population.
>>But it’s not pleasant to be on death row. Scott Peterson would be an example of someone.<<
Yeah, I’ve heard the other inmates have not been kind to him, to say the least.
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