State Supreme Court upholds death sentence for San Pedro man who killed Marymount students
The California Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a San Pedro man convicted of carjacking and killing two Marymount College exchange students 15 years ago.
The court announced Thursday it had rejected defense claims trying to overturn the sentence of Raymond Oscar Butler, convicted in 1996 of killing film 19-year-old film students Takuma Ito and Go Matsuura on March 24, 1994.
Butler received a second death sentence in 1998 for helping two men kill a fellow inmate in county jail while awaiting his trial in the Ito and Matsuura case.
The sentence in the March 26, 1995, slaying of Tyrone Flemming, 23, of Los Angeles remains on appeal.
The court announced Thursday it had rejected defense claims trying to overturn the sentence of Raymond Oscar Butler, convicted in 1996 of killing film 19-year-old film students Takuma Ito and Go Matsuura on March 24, 1994.
Butler received a second death sentence in 1998 for helping two men kill a fellow inmate in county jail while awaiting his trial in the Ito and Matsuura case.
The sentence in the March 26, 1995, slaying of Tyrone Flemming, 23, of Los Angeles remains on appeal.
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