Triple-Murderer Gets His Wish:  South Carolina triple-murderer Kenneth Justus was sentenced to death Tuesday, after prohibiting his attorneys from introducing mitigating evidence or arguing for mercy.  The story by Schuyler Kropf in today's Charleston Post and Courier reports that Justus, was serving two life sentences for previous murders when he stabbed 22-year-old Justin Bregenzer to death with a home-made knife.  Bregenzer was serving time for property crimes  and walking away from a trash pickup detail.  No Virginia, life in prison does not prevent murderers from killing.

Murder Suspect May Have Targeted Witnesses:  A man in jail awaiting trial for murder is now facing additional charges of soliciting the killing of two witnesses.  Gregory Orlando Fann was facing the death penalty for a murder last May when, according to police, he offered another inmate $10,000 to kill the two two teen-aged witnesses to the killing.  A story by Edward Lewis in the PA Times Leader reports that Fann, a small-time criminal in Edwardsville, shot and killed 19-year-old Aaron Witko with a .44 caliber pistol, after leading him to a secluded area supposedly to sell Witko an assault rifle.  Two teenaged boys who had accompanied Fain witnessed the murder.  Investigators recently discovered that Fain had typed a letter on a correctional facility typewriter providing descriptions and the addresses of both witnesses and the best time to kill them.  The letter was mailed to a recently released inmate.