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Eric Hanson has been sentenced to death for killing his sister, parents and brother-in-law. His surviving sister testified against him during his recently concluded trial, and yesterday a jury took only 90 minutes to return its verdict in favor of execution.
Hanson was convicted of beating his sister and brother-in-law to death in their Aurora home after his sister discovered he stole $140,000 from their parents. He then drove to his parents' home in Naperville where he shot both of them, and then took their bodies to the Aurora house. Then he got on a plane and flew to LA, where he went to a Neil Diamond concert.
Hey wait a second...don't we have a moratorium on the death penalty in our state? Why yes. We do. So even though Hanson (and 13 other people since 2003) has been sentenced to the death, it's unlikely he'll be executed. Prosecutors for this case called the moratorium a "charade," but Blagojevich isn't about to lift the ban. (And for plenty of good reasons.)
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Then he got on a plane and flew to LA, where he went to a Neil Diamond concert.
There's a good joke in there somewhere. I'm just not sure where...
reminds me that Richard Pryor skit about him going to prison where they put him in a cell with a man who killed his entire family! Pryor says, "so why did you kill your whole family?"
The dude says "they were home"
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Pinko, yea I'm trying to wrap my head around that too
"Then he got on a plane and flew to LA, where he went to a Neil Diamond concert."
this dumbfuck killed his family so he could move to a lame city like LA and blow his money on things like a Neil Diamond concert? his behavior afterwards somehow makes the crime even worse in my opinion
Magilla: That is probably why the jury deliberated for only 90 minutes before deciding to sentence him to death.
So, I have to know - is the cliche true? Did he appeal for mercy on the basis that he was an orphan?
I think they got this backwards. He murdered his family and was sentenced to a Neil Diamond concert.