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Alabama judge orders killer dad to take daily look at his victims

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local AP article, an Alabama state judge added a novel condition when sentencing a killer to death earlier this week.  Here are the details: A judge on Thursday ordered a death sentence for a coastal Alabama man who was convicted of murdering four young children by tossing them from a bridge to "torture" his wife. Mobile County Circuit Judge Charles Graddick also ordered that prison officials show Lam Luong photos of the children each day he spends on death row awaiting lethal injection.... The 38-year-old jobless shrimper was convicted of capital murder in March for killing the children on Jan. 7, 2008 in a dispute with his wife, Kieu Phan, who was 23 at the time. Jurors last month earlier voted 12-0 for the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).