Posted on Nov 10, 2014
Another death penalty in newlywed Marine couple murders
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From: Marine Corps Times
A man who joined three accomplices in tormenting and killing a Marine sergeant and his wife during a home invasion robbery near Murrieta, California, was sentenced Friday to death.
Kesaun Kedron Sykes, 27, was convicted in August of the 2008 slayings of 26-year-olde Quiana Faye Jenkins-Pietrzak and her husband, 24-year-old Janek Pietrzak.
The six-man, six-woman jury that found Sykes guilty recommended the death penalty, and Riverside County Superior Court Judge Christian Thierbach followed that recommendation.
The defendant is the last of four former Marines to be sentenced for the Oct. 15, 2008, killings.
Last year, three members of Janek Pietrzak's helicopter maintenance squadron at Camp Pendleton — Kevin Darnell Cox and Tyrone Lloyd Miller, both 27, along with 25-year-old Emrys Justin John —were convicted.
Cox and Miller were sentenced to death, while John received two consecutive life prison terms.
"Mr. Sykes and the other defendants crossed every line of human decency when they committed these murders," said Deputy District Attorney Dan DeLimon. "We're talking about a pack of predators who actually took pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering. They're more monster than human."
Sykes, Miller, Cox and John forced their way into the Pietrzaks' French Valley home at 3139 Bermuda Ave. after Cox knocked on the door around 1 a.m. asking if he could speak to the sergeant.
After tying up and gagging the victims, the defendants ransacked the home for 90 minutes.
Quiana Pietrzak was separated from her husband and placed on a table by Sykes, who stripped her and joined Miller and Cox in sexually violating her with a vibrator. According to the defendants' own testimony, they mocked the blindfolded woman, making lewd gestures and suggesting that her cooperation might save her life.
The foursome had carried out a similar home-invasion in Oceanside less than a month earlier, though no one was killed. They confessed that they were mainly interested in the "stuff" they might be able steal from the Pietrzaks, who had received numerous gifts at their Aug. 8 wedding.
John shot the couple with a 9mm handgun.
The defendants painted racial epithets on the home's interior walls — and on the victims' bodies — to make it appear as though a hate-crime had occurred. Pietrzak was of Polish descent; Quiana was black.
Sykes' attorney, Doug Myers, argued that his client suffered from an under-developed brain.
Pietrzak's mother, Henryka Varga, and Quiana's mother, Glenda Faye Jenkins, waged a campaign in 2009 seeking legislation to require the Marine Corps to raise its recruiting standards and strengthen vetting procedures to prevent men such as the defendants from joining. The effort did not bear fruit.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/crime/2014/11/10/murder-death-penalty/18790785/
A man who joined three accomplices in tormenting and killing a Marine sergeant and his wife during a home invasion robbery near Murrieta, California, was sentenced Friday to death.
Kesaun Kedron Sykes, 27, was convicted in August of the 2008 slayings of 26-year-olde Quiana Faye Jenkins-Pietrzak and her husband, 24-year-old Janek Pietrzak.
The six-man, six-woman jury that found Sykes guilty recommended the death penalty, and Riverside County Superior Court Judge Christian Thierbach followed that recommendation.
The defendant is the last of four former Marines to be sentenced for the Oct. 15, 2008, killings.
Last year, three members of Janek Pietrzak's helicopter maintenance squadron at Camp Pendleton — Kevin Darnell Cox and Tyrone Lloyd Miller, both 27, along with 25-year-old Emrys Justin John —were convicted.
Cox and Miller were sentenced to death, while John received two consecutive life prison terms.
"Mr. Sykes and the other defendants crossed every line of human decency when they committed these murders," said Deputy District Attorney Dan DeLimon. "We're talking about a pack of predators who actually took pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering. They're more monster than human."
Sykes, Miller, Cox and John forced their way into the Pietrzaks' French Valley home at 3139 Bermuda Ave. after Cox knocked on the door around 1 a.m. asking if he could speak to the sergeant.
After tying up and gagging the victims, the defendants ransacked the home for 90 minutes.
Quiana Pietrzak was separated from her husband and placed on a table by Sykes, who stripped her and joined Miller and Cox in sexually violating her with a vibrator. According to the defendants' own testimony, they mocked the blindfolded woman, making lewd gestures and suggesting that her cooperation might save her life.
The foursome had carried out a similar home-invasion in Oceanside less than a month earlier, though no one was killed. They confessed that they were mainly interested in the "stuff" they might be able steal from the Pietrzaks, who had received numerous gifts at their Aug. 8 wedding.
John shot the couple with a 9mm handgun.
The defendants painted racial epithets on the home's interior walls — and on the victims' bodies — to make it appear as though a hate-crime had occurred. Pietrzak was of Polish descent; Quiana was black.
Sykes' attorney, Doug Myers, argued that his client suffered from an under-developed brain.
Pietrzak's mother, Henryka Varga, and Quiana's mother, Glenda Faye Jenkins, waged a campaign in 2009 seeking legislation to require the Marine Corps to raise its recruiting standards and strengthen vetting procedures to prevent men such as the defendants from joining. The effort did not bear fruit.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/crime/2014/11/10/murder-death-penalty/18790785/
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One thing I fail to understand...when someone stops acting like a human being, why do we continue as a society to treat him or her as one? Hell, I remember back home seeing posts in the newspaper about sex offenders that have been released, are 5-8th time offenders (no, this is not an exagerration), listed as VERY likely to reoffend, yet they STILL LET THEM OUT. WTF??? Is it more "politically correct" and "humane" to those who will suffer because of them by letting them out and treating them as regular people? Why are we taking more consideration towards the offenders and not the victims? Sorry, went a little off-topic, but I fail to understand how society and "humanitarian groups" figured this BS...
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SSG Kenneth Lanning
BTW; I agree with Ron White...we all need to follow suit with Texas and put a frikkin' express lane on the death penalty-a 9mm bullet isn't that expensive.
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SPC Mikki Ekanger
The world we live in has turned from the citizens having rights to the criminals having them. In Washington State the corrections system now recognizes pedophilia as a "Sexual Orientation". I'm of the thought that this comes from somewhere in the government. It strikes me that this "Tolerance" things is going way too far. At least there's justice in the above case.
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I've said it before... I don't believe in God and divine judgement because I have some special insight or my faith is better than anyone else's. I believe in God and divine retribution because I have to, to keep my sanity. I cannot imagine any punishment that we can inflict upon perpetrators such as these, not even death, that is sufficient for their crimes.
Anyone who "thinks" about these things must necessary swing like a pendulum between support for and opposition to the death penalty. There have been enough cases of innocence proven following capital punishment to give us pause. There have been at least as many cases of perpetrators set free for insane reasons (I watched the OJ trial and felt that I too would have to vote for innocence even had I witnessed the crime because the prosecution was so poor).
I can only pray and hope that my prayers are not delivered to a void, and that there is a God who will sort it all out, bless the victims with a better existence than the one that ended here so badly, and punish the perpetrators appropriately.
Anyone who "thinks" about these things must necessary swing like a pendulum between support for and opposition to the death penalty. There have been enough cases of innocence proven following capital punishment to give us pause. There have been at least as many cases of perpetrators set free for insane reasons (I watched the OJ trial and felt that I too would have to vote for innocence even had I witnessed the crime because the prosecution was so poor).
I can only pray and hope that my prayers are not delivered to a void, and that there is a God who will sort it all out, bless the victims with a better existence than the one that ended here so badly, and punish the perpetrators appropriately.
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Good they all got convicted, 3 out of 4 received the death penalty, guess the one had a good enough lawyer to cut a better deal.
Just hope that their death sentences don't linger for the next 20 years on appeal. What they did is beyond sick and they don't deserve to live on the taxpayer dollar for the next 20 or so years.
Just hope that their death sentences don't linger for the next 20 years on appeal. What they did is beyond sick and they don't deserve to live on the taxpayer dollar for the next 20 or so years.
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CH (CPT)(P) (Join to see)
All death penalties take forever. I would be surprised if any are less than 20 years.
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Just getting the death penalty is far to easy for animals like these. Should be some of what they inflicted to go with it!
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SSG Marcus Brothers
Only problem with that is that we then have to find someone equally sick to carry the punishment out.
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This is sick, methodic and brutal. No amount of retribution will be enough for the friends and family of the victims. Death is not enough for people like this.
My heart goes out to the friends and family of the victims. I hope one day, they will an end to their grief and find solace in the death of the assailants. I doubt they ever will though.
My heart goes out to the friends and family of the victims. I hope one day, they will an end to their grief and find solace in the death of the assailants. I doubt they ever will though.
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Not really up for pressing the like button here... If anything i would press the do not like button. So sad that anyone has this type of evil running in their veins. Not even sure why the guy that pulled the trigger is serving time in prison and didn't receive the death penalty with the rest of those jokers. They should lose their right to an attorney because his attorney saying he suffered from "and underdeveloped brain" is just stupid. That's the same thing as blaming mass shootings on PTSD and is inexcusable. Justice is served here which is what is important.
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I am .... beyond words...
Strip all four of these maggots of all rank and privileges
Stake them down permanently so they cannot run away in an open field
Send in anyone who wants to remove this stain upon Humanity
Make sure they do not go easily into the darkness
Make sure they know and remember each and every thing that happens to them
Make sure they stay alive long enough and conscious enough as we beat them to death
Strip all four of these maggots of all rank and privileges
Stake them down permanently so they cannot run away in an open field
Send in anyone who wants to remove this stain upon Humanity
Make sure they do not go easily into the darkness
Make sure they know and remember each and every thing that happens to them
Make sure they stay alive long enough and conscious enough as we beat them to death
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Unfortunate circumstances outside Camp Pendleton, glad justice was served!
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MSG Floyd Williams
I hope the "bad apples" out there don't enlist into the military, we don't need more negative images of our U.S. Armed Forces.
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