SOUTHLAND : Death Sentence in 3 Murders Upheld
The state Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence of a Los Angeles man for murdering two men and a woman during a drug-related robbery in 1979.
The 6-1 decision in the case of Jesse James Andrews, 39, was the first majority opinion by Justice Joyce L. Kennard, appointed to the court by Gov. George Deukmejian in April. The only dissenter, Justice Stanley Mosk, said Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz should have told jurors that they could consider showing mercy to Andrews. Mosk said the jury instructions suggested improperly that “the exercise of mercy was in fact illegitimate.”
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