The
guards were meant to check the cell every so often, Sterling told the Times,
and the crime would have taken hours to commit. If the guards had been doing
their required checks, Romero would be alive today, he said.
Romero,
who had spent 27 years in prison, was put in the cell with Osuna after arriving
from Mule Creek State Prison, according to the lawsuit. He was convicted of
second-degree murder after fatally shooting a woman in Compton when he was a
teenager and associating with gang members. He was nearing parole eligibility.
His
new cellmate, Osuna, was serving a life sentence for the killing and torture of
Yvette Pena, 37, at a Bakersfield motel in 2011. With face tattoos and flair
for Charles Manson-like satanic antics, he became a dark figure during the 2017
trial, mocking the victim’s family and bragging to a television news reporter
of his love of torturing people.
Sometime
in the early hours of March 9, 2019, Osuna methodically tortured and killed
Romero, authorities said.
Using
a razor-style blade attached to a handle, Osuna ultimately cut Romero’s head.
He also posed the body, slicing Romero’s face open on either side of his mouth
to resemble an extended smile, according to an autopsy.
Guards
found Osuna wearing a necklace made of Romero’s body parts, the Times said.
Kings
County Executive Assistant Dist. Atty. Phil Esbenshade called it the most
heinous slaying he had ever seen. “We do believe that the victim was conscious
during at least a portion of the time,” he said.
Osuna
has been transferred to Salinas Valley State Prison’s psychiatric inpatient
program. He has been diagnosed with unspecified schizophrenia spectrum,
antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder, according
to the newspaper.
A
judge has ruled that Osuna is not competent to stand trial for Romero’s death.
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When
liberals argue against the Death Penalty, are they worried that a lying witness
~ might ~ condemn
a man to death, – are they trying to be “Christian” and make themselves feel
good, or are they totally
ignoring the true evil which lives in some men?
California killer accused of beheading, torturing cellmate
By
DON THOMPSON
April
27, 2019
SACRAMENTO,
Calif. (AP) — One convicted killer has been accused of beheading another in
what authorities call an exceptionally sadistic torture slaying at a California
prison.
Corcoran
State Prison inmate Jaime Osuna removed several body parts from his cellmate,
Luis Romero, Assistant Kings County District Attorney Phil Esbenshade said Friday.
Charges accuse Osuna, 31, of repeatedly cutting Romero last month using what
the prosecutor called a sharp metal object wrapped in string and attached to a
handle.
It’s
not clear how much happened while Romero, 44, was still alive or whether anyone
heard the overnight assault, but “we do believe that the victim was conscious
during at least a portion of the time,” Esbenshade said in an email. “This is
the most gruesome case that I have seen in terms of heinousness in the
slaying.”
The
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is conducting an
internal investigation, spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. Officials wouldn’t
provide more details on how prisoners are overseen overnight.
Osuna
pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges at his first court appearance
Thursday. They include several special circumstances that could bring the death
penalty, including that the slaying “was especially heinous, atrocious, or
cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity.”
Defense
attorney Melina Benninghoff was appointed to represent him but was home sick
Friday and did not respond to telephone and email requests to comment on his
behalf.
Osuna
also is charged with torture, mayhem and weapons possession. The torture charge
alleges that he acted “with the intent to cause cruel and extreme pain and
suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion and for a sadistic
purpose.”
The
state corrections department said guards found Romero dead in his cell about
7:30 a.m. March 9 at the prison, which houses more than 3,300 inmates about 220
miles (354 kilometers) south of Sacramento.
Romero
bled to death from “multiple sharp force trauma injuries,” and his body was
mutilated, according to an autopsy report released Friday.
Osuna
was sentenced to life without parole after pleading guilty in 2017 to killing
Yvette Pena, 37, at a Bakersfield motel in 2011, according to media reports at
the time.
Romero
also was serving a life term for a Los Angeles County slaying, but with the
possibility of parole.
Osuna
has been transferred to a Stockton prison for inmates needing medical or mental
health care, though officials wouldn’t say why, citing privacy laws.
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Jaime Osuna is seen
during his sentencing for murder in Bakersfield, Calif., in May 2017. New
inspector general reports suggest officers didn't realize Osuna had allegedly
killed his cellmate during a check in March 2019
Murderer mocks victim's family as he's sentenced to life without parole
BY JASON KOTOWSKI jkotowski@bakersfield.com May 14, 2017 Updated Apr 26, 2019
For the family of Yvette Pena, Monday's court
hearing was an opportunity to speak about the enduring loss they feel in
connection with Pena's brutal slaying in 2011.
For Jaime Osuna, the man who tortured and killed
Pena, it was one last chance to mock the family. He rolled his eyes and smirked
as Pena's relatives addressed the court.
Osuna, 29, gave a thumbs-up sign as Judge John S.
Somers sentenced him to life without parole. And he waved at Pena's relatives
before deputies took him away.
Danielle Gonzales, Pena's younger sister, told the
court there's no such thing as closure when someone you love dies in "such
a tragic way." The pain she feels is the same as it was when she was first
notified of the killing, she said.
"Five years, six months and two days
later the hurt is still just as bad as the night I got that knock on my
door," Gonzales said.
Osuna pleaded guilty in March to five charges
including first-degree murder.
Pena's body was found Nov. 13, 2011, at the El
Morocco Motel. Osuna was arrested five days later after officers surrounded an
apartment he was staying at in the 400 block of Real Road.
Coroner's officials ruled Pena died of blunt force
injuries, sharp-force injuries and asphyxia. Prosecutor Nicholas Lackie
declined to go into the details of what he described as "truly
horrific" injuries inflicted upon the victim.
Lackie said Osuna's behavior Monday was much the
same at each earlier court hearing. He said Osuna appeared amused by the
process and acted as if he enjoyed the attention.
"It's truly reprehensible," Lackie said.
The heavily tattooed Osuna, who goes by the
nickname "Lokito," admitted in an interview with KBAK Channel 29 he
was one of the last people with Pena, but denied killing her. He said the motel
room was used for prostitution and to get high on methamphetamine.
Osuna claimed he knew the names of the other people
who were with him and Pena the day she died, and would give those names in
court. He never did, and Lackie said there is no information to take action
regarding his allegations.
While rehabilitation is one of the purposes of
prison, Osuna indicated he will not change.
Gonzales, during her comments to the court, said
Osuna has smiled during the 12 court hearings she attended in the case. She
said she hoped one day he would feel remorse.
Osuna immediately shook his head and repeatedly
mouthed, "No."
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Notorious killer Jaime Osuna pleads not guilty to murder in
cellmate's grisly slaying
Apr
26, 2019
CBS47
KSEE24
HANFORD,
Calif. (KGET) -- Notorious Kern County killer Jaime Osuna pleaded not guilty
Thursday to murder and other counts filed against him in the grisly slaying of
his cellmate. Prosecutors confirmed that Osuna's cellmate, Luis Romero, was
decapitated and suffered other dismemberment. His body was found March 9 in the
cell he shared with Osuna at Corcoran State Prison. Osuna, 31, faces the death
penalty in connection with the killing, described in documents as
"especially heinous, atrocious, cruel, manifesting exceptional
depravity." Romero, 44, had been convicted of second-degree murder in Los
Angeles in 1993. Osuna is already serving a sentence of life without parole for
the murder of Yvette Pena, a woman he called an acquaintance, in 2011. Pena's
murder was also committed with torture, according to investigators.
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Here are some Killers on Ohio death row who had
murdered their inmates, they may kill a Corrections Officer too:
1. August A. Cassano - Ohio Death Row Summary of
Offense: On October 21, 1997, Cassano murdered his cellmate, 22-year-old Walter
Hardy, at Mansfield Correctional Institution. Cassano stabbed Hardy 75 times
with a homemade knife. Cassano was serving a life sentence for an aggravated
murder in 1976 and had previously stabbed another cellmate in 1992, according
to the corrections department. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3021-August-A-Cassano-Ohio-Death-Row
2 to 7. Keith LaMar - Ohio Execution - November 16,
2023 Summary of Offense: During the riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
(Lucasville), LaMar murdered five prison inmates, Darrell Depina, Bruce Vitale,
William Svette, Dennis Weaver and Albert Staiano, whom LaMar believed were snitches.
When prison inmates held prison guards and other inmates hostage, LaMar formed
a group of prison inmates, called the "Death Squad," to kill
snitches. Between April 11, 1993 and April 21, 1993, on five separate occasions,
Lamar and his followers beat, strangled and stabbed each victim to death. At
the time, LaMar was serving a sentence for a 1989 murder conviction. LaMar
received the death sentence for the aggravated murders of Mr. Depina, Mr.
Vitale, Mr. Svette and Mr. Weaver. Also sentenced to death for murders
committed during the riot were Jason Robb, Carlos Sanders, George Skatzes and
James Were. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3085-Keith-LaMar-Ohio-Execution-November-16-2023
8. James
Galen Hanna - Ohio Execution - May 18, 2022 Summary of Offense: On August 22,
1997, Hanna attacked his 43-year-old cellmate, Peter Copas, at the Lebanon
Correctional Institution. Hanna thrust a sharpened paintbrush into Mr. Copas'
eye and hit him in the head with a padlock placed in a sock. Mr. Copas died as
a result of his injuries on September 10, 1997. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?3053-James-Galen-Hanna-Ohio-Execution-May-18-2022
9. On this date, May 18, 2020, Joel Drain was sentenced
to death for the murder of his inmate, Christopher Richardson in 2019. Drain
was already serving a life sentence where Court records indicate that he
strangled Randy Grose, 56, while stabbing him numerous times in the head and
stomach. Another good reason why murderers will kill behind bars.
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