Death Sentence Ordered for Murder of 3 in Bank
A 28-year-old man was sentenced to death Saturday for murdering three bank employees in a June robbery that netted less than $2,300.
Martin D. Appel of Northampton had pleaded guilty on July 22 to general homicide charges filed after he and another man walked into the First National Bank of Bath in East Allen Township and opened fire. Appel, in pleading guilty, had asked to die in the electric chair “to atone for the deaths of the others.”
Northampton County Judge Robert A. Freedberg fixed the offense at first-degree murder and passed the death sentence.
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