For an introduction to the Orange County's death row series, a slideshow of all the inmates on death row and the history of capital punishment in California, click here.
The Orange County Register is publishing summaries of the 58 killers sentenced to death by Orange County judges, two per day during weekdays, from the oldest case to the newest. Here are Nos. 17 and 18:
Shaun Kareem Burney, left unknown date, right June 2007, shot and killed Joseph Andrew Kondrath, 23, of Anaheim during a carjacking June 10, 1992. Prosecutors argued that Burney, then 19, accosted Kondrath on an Anaheim street before dawn, placed a .357-caliber Magnum against his victim's skull, robbed him of $1 and forced him into the trunk of a stolen car. Burney later opened the trunk lid and fired two shots into Kondrath's head while the victim begged, 'Don't hurt me."CA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS; TEXT BY LARRY WELBORN, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 1994
Shaun Kareem Burney shot and killed Joseph Andrew Kondrath, 23, of Anaheim during a carjacking June 10, 1992. Prosecutors argued that Burney, then 19, accosted Kondrath on an Anaheim street before dawn, placed a .357-caliber Magnum against his victim's skull, robbed him of $1 and forced him into the trunk of a stolen car. Burney later opened the trunk lid and fired two shots into Kondrath's head while the victim begged, "Don't hurt me."
1995
Ignacio Tafoya shot and killed Gerald Lee Skillman, 35, of Westminster and Steven Francis Rita, 29, of Boston during a home invasion robbery in May 1993. Timothy T. Wynglarz, Tafoya's co-defendant, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Witnesses testified that the two conspirators pushed their way into the house, where Tafoya knocked the two victims to the floor and shot each two times execution-style. Tafoya's case has been affirmed by the California Supreme Court.
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Shaun Kareem Burney, left unknown date, right June 2007, shot and killed Joseph Andrew Kondrath, 23, of Anaheim during a carjacking June 10, 1992. Prosecutors argued that Burney, then 19, accosted Kondrath on an Anaheim street before dawn, placed a .357-caliber Magnum against his victim's skull, robbed him of $1 and forced him into the trunk of a stolen car. Burney later opened the trunk lid and fired two shots into Kondrath's head while the victim begged, 'Don't hurt me."CA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS; TEXT BY LARRY WELBORN, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, For an introduction to the Orange County's death row series, a slideshow of all the inmates on death row and the history of capital punishment in California, click here.
The Orange County Register is publishing summaries of the 58 killers sentenced to death by Orange County judges, two per day during weekdays, from the oldest case to the newest. Here are Nos. 17 and 18:
1994
For an introduction to the Orange County's death row series, a slideshow of all the inmates on death row and the history of capital punishment in California, click here.
The Orange County Register is publishing summaries of the 58 killers sentenced to death by Orange County judges, two per day during weekdays, from the oldest case to the newest. Here are Nos. 17 and 18:
1994
