Conviction for Seattle’s Chinatown Deaths Upheld
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — The state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction and death sentence of Willie Mak, the reputed mastermind of the 1983 massacre of 13 persons in Seattle’s Chinatown. The court ruled that the evidence overwhelmingly established that Mak planned the killings to cover up a robbery.
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