Dennis Stanworth gestures during his appearance at the Solano County Superior Court in Fairfield, Calif. on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. Languishing on death row for brutally raping a series of victims before killing two teen girls he picked up hitchhiking, Stanworth pleaded with the courts to get on with his execution. "I have dishonored my family's name," he wrote the California Supreme Court in asking for his appeals to be dropped and his lawyer fired. He was paroled in 1990. On Wednesday, Vallejo police arrested him for the murder of his mother. (AP Photo/The Times-Herald, Mike Jory)