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Lucas gets life imprisonment
for stabbing young girlfriend
United Press International
DENTON — A jury Thurs
day sentenced Henry Lee Lucas,
whose claims of murdering
more than 150 women could
make him the country’s most
prolific killer, to 99 years or life
in prison for stabbing and dis
membering his 15-year-old girl
friend.
Punishment deliberations
took three hours.
“I expected it,” Lucas said as
he was led away following Dis
trict Judge W.C.Boyd’s formal
pronouncement of sentence. “I
am relieved. This is what I asked
for.”
Lucas told reporters he
would plead guilty to the eight
remaining murder charges
against him.
“I will ask for death,” he said.
The one-eyed former mental
patient said the murder convic
tion Wednesday was “just what I
expected” in his first trial since
he began telling authorities he
killed more than 150 women in
17 states during the past eight
years.
The jury Wednesday con-
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victed Lucas, who served prison
time for killing his mother, in
the death of 15-year-old Frieda
“Becky” Powell, a traveling com
panion Lucas confessed to kill
ing in a field near Denton.
Under Texas law, the jury’s
finding on punishment is
binding.
In his presentation Wednes
day, District Attorney Jerry
Cobb urged the jury to “have the
guts” to send Lucas tojail for life
for Powell’s murder.
“The punishment has to do
with removing this animal from
the streets of America and pro
tecting the American society. It
has to do with the protection of
15-year-old girls and old ladies.
If you have the guts, the reason
able thing to do is to send him
away for life,” Cobb said.
The jury was apparently un
moved by an appeal from Lucas’
court-appointed lawyer, Tom
Whitlock, who stressed Lucas’
co-operation with authorities
merited consideration and
asked for a five-year sentence.
lencing.
“He (Lucas) always^
in the basic facts of thetas
he took a life and he wan
be punished for it," ft
said. “This man deserve
credit for this.”
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Whitlock said he would de
cide on an appeal after the sen-
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against a man police say killed
six people during a rampage in
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Eliseo Moreno, a former
Donna lawnmower repairman,
was charged Thursday in the
Oct. 11 deaths of Juan Garza
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to the their apartment in search
of his estranged wife, Blanca,
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