Local News in Brief : S. Carolina Trial for Slayer
Mitchell Sims arrived Friday in the Charleston, S.C., area to stand trial for the murder of two Domino’s pizza workers in 1985, authorities said.
Sims was convicted in California of the murder of another Domino’s pizza employee in Glendale six days after the South Carolina killings and was sentenced to death in the California gas chamber.
Gov. George Deukmejian approved the extradition in January, but California courts had allowed Sims to remain in the state while he sought review of the order.
Sims, 28, was sentenced to death for the December, 1985, murder of a Domino’s deliveryman in a Glendale motel room by tying the man up and drowning him in a bathtub. An accomplice, Ruby Padgett, was sentenced to life without possibility of parole.
A witness at the Los Angeles trial said Sims held a grudge against Domino’s from the time he worked as a manager of a company pizza parlor and quit over a reduction in bonus payments.
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