the Region - News from May 29, 1986

Mauricio Silva, convicted of killing three teen-agers within a week after his release from prison in May, 1984, should receive the death penalty, a Los Angeles jury recommended. A new jury was selected after the panel that convicted Silva, 26, of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder in April, 1985, deadlocked last July on whether he should die in the gas chamber. Deputy Dist. Atty. Lonnie A. Felker, the prosecutor, said the only new element in the second penalty trial was evidence that Silva may have raped his half-sister, Martha Kitzler, 17, before stabbing and strangling her in the home they shared.