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Former death row inmate makes appearance in new homicide case
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)
FAIRFIELD — A murder case that began with the defendant blurting out his guilt at his first court appearance has shifted gears down to the more typical pace of most Solano County homicide prosecutions.
Dennis F. Stanworth, 70, of Vallejo, made his third court appearance Thursday where his court-appointed attorney asked for and received a two-month delay before scheduling a probable cause hearing. Judge Robert Bowers ordered Stanworth back to court April 16. Stanworth is in jail without bail.
Stanworth has pleaded not guilty to killing his 90-year-old mother. Vallejo police have said Stanworth contacted them Jan. 9 and told them he had killed his mother in November.
Stanworth was sentenced to die in December 1966 for the sexual assaults and brutal slayings of two Pinole teen girls. In 1972, when the state Supreme Court struck down California’s death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment, Stanworth had his death sentence changed to life in prison. He was paroled in 1990 and later moved to Vallejo.
Because of the previous murder convictions, Stanworth is again eligible for the death penalty.
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woodstockFebruary 22, 2013 - 5:55 am
Only in a liberal whacked out state as California where you murder two teenagers and eventually you're released to walk the streets again. It is t r ue, liberalism is a mental disorder.
Reply |RichFebruary 22, 2013 - 4:53 pm
You got that right---and worse, when you point out the FACTS about the consequences of their beliefs, decisions, value systems and priorities they have the gall to call us ''crazy''. And I simply point out that's exactly what went on under the Soviet Communist government system---they too called lovers of liberty, capitalism and mercantilism ''crazy'' too.
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