After 8th Murder, Illegal Faces Death Penalty

An illegal alien murderer from El Salvador deported six times, may face the death penalty for killing his cellmate.  The LA Daily News reports that Ramon Escobar plead guilty in Los Angeles last year of robbing and beating five men to death with a baseball bat and bolt cutters and also admitted killing his aunt and uncle in Texas.  In exchange for his plea, Escobar was sentenced in May 2022 to life without the possibility of parole (LWOP).   The multiple robbery-murders  made Escobar eligible for the death penalty, but fortunately for him, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon refuses to seek it even for serial killers.  Last February state corrections officials say that Escobar strangled his cellmate to death in a Bakersfield prison.  This is bad news for Escobar.   Kern County District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer does not share Gascon’s sympathy for murderers.  With his prior conviction for multiple murders, Escobar is once again eligible for a death sentence.