Jury Asks Death for Killer of 3

Jurors today recommended death in San Quentin’s gas chamber for a man convicted of murdering three teen-agers, including his half-sister, within weeks of his release from prison in 1984.

Mauricio Silva, 26, had been convicted of the first-degree shotgun murders of two 16-year-old runaways in the desert, and the second-degree strangulation and stabbing murder in Hollywood of his half-sister, Martha Kitzler, 17. He had just served five years in prison for manslaughter in the 1978 shooting death of a 16-year-old boy and a subsequent assault on a fellow prisoner.