Jury: Death for 2 in video game slayings.

[fattony69]

Originally Posted by Associated Press

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Two of the three men convicted of killing six young people with baseball bats in a dispute over an Xbox video game system should be executed, a jury said Tuesday.

Death was recommended for ringleader Troy Victorino, 29, and Jerone Hunter, 20, and life in prison for Michael Salas, 20. All three were convicted last week of six counts of first-degree murder.

The jury deliberated almost three hours before making its recommendation to Chief Circuit Judge Bill Parsons.

Early on Aug. 6, 2004, four men broke into a house in Deltona, slaying the six victims.

Prosecutors said Victorino was angry with victim Erin Belanger, 22, who had him evicted when she found him living in her grandmother's home in Deltona. She kept some of his belongings, including some clothing and the video game system.

The jury recommended death on four of the six murder counts for both Victorino and Hunter. Life in prison was recommended for the others.

As the recommendations were read, Victorino did not look at the jury. Hunter flinched when the first recommendation for death was read but kept his composure, looking forward. Salas leaned back in his chair and sighed with relief after it was clear the jury had not recommended death for him.

Attorneys for Hunter and Salas had argued that their clients were intimidated by the 6-foot-7-inch, 270-pound Victorino, and wouldn't have entered the house if they had not been threatened and coerced.

Besides Belanger, the victims were Francisco Ayo-Roman, 30; Michelle Nathan, 19; Anthony Vega, 34; Roberto Gonzalez, 28; and Jonathan Gleason, 17.

What are your thoughts about this?

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[SmeaGz]

if you kill any person, premeditated, and go forth and really do kill that man, you should die too. i dont see why theres controversy over the death penalty, does anyone realize THEY killed a man too?

[Pantera House]

people...

[PhaLanX]

Originally Posted by SmeaGz

if you kill any person, premeditated, and go forth and really do kill that man, you should die too. i dont see why theres controversy over the death penalty, does anyone realize THEY killed a man too?

I knew i loved you smeagz

[Ephrum]

What does this have to do with video games? Because they broke into and killed the people who were holding his 'video game system'? Umm... regardless of the punishments... sounds like the media trying to stick something else to video games... boooo...

...please let me know if I missed something...

[AgeofBlades]

well...they did kill someone...over a video game...i believe they deserve what is coming to them....

[transmitable25]

I say they should be killed. They took the lives of 6 other people for no reason (not that there is ever a reason to kill somebody) and I believe that is cause for them to also be killed. What is the point of having people like that in our world?

[dandamanyo22]

ok smeagz but when they killed some 1 and then what are u doing to them ur killing them i would brather put a hostal on them or put them in prison for life or in canada he its only 25 years yay so i can go kill some1 and 25 years later im out yippie

but when u have the death penatly ur contributing to the killing

[SmeaGz]

prison for life i fully agree with too...

what im about to say may seem Nazi or whatever, but im stickin by it

Anyone who kills anyone in a planned act should be killed as an example to everyone who would even ponder doing so.

[Matt PwNs]

I hereby award six beatdown medals to the defendants. Now they should all die.