4th Jury Sentences Oregon Killer to Death:  For the 4th time since 1989, an Oregon jury has sentenced serial murderer Dayton Leroy Rogers to death.  Steven DuBois of the Associated Press reports that Rodgers was convicted of the 1980s torture and murder of eight women.  He was dubbed the Molalla Forest Killer because he dumped his victim's bodies in a forest near the small town of Molalla.  Rogers has also received a life sentence for the 1987 stabbing murder of a Portland woman and has been tied to the murder of another woman whose body was discovered in 2013.  The Oregon Supreme Court has overturned Rogers' death sentence in 1992, 2000, and 2012.  Perhaps that court should just do away with those annoying sentencing juries.

Lifelong Child Predator Gets a Break in PA:  An Allentown man who began his criminal career with the 1965 rapes of an 8-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and his 9-year-old brother, will serve a short term in county jail before release on probation for stalking a 13-year-old boy earlier this year.  Laurie Mason Schroeder of the Morning Call reports that Clyde Ruppel had previously completed a 15 year prison sentence for the multiple rapes of two 12-year-old boys at public parks in Doylestown.  He was not under parole supervision at the time of the current crime because he served the entire time of the prior sentence behind bars.  He also had convictions for masturbating in front of children and showing them pornography.  At sentencing, the Lehigh County prosecutor called Ruppel "a pedophile who will never stop," and asked the judge to sentence him to five years in prison, but the judge agreed with the public defender who said "the community is better served if he is under supervision," rather than behind bars.