Tuesday, November 4, 2008

BOISE, ID: JOSEPH DUNCAN -DEATH AND 6 LIFE SENTENCES

JOSEPH EDWARD DUNCAN III


JOSEPH DUNCAN WITH KIDNAPPED SHASTA GROENE

Joseph Duncan is escorted to jury selection for his trial at the Boise Centre on the Grove convention center on Monday. Duncan pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges, three of which could bring the death penalty.Associated Press (Associated Press)

Convicted Child-Killer Joseph Duncan Gets 6 Life Sentences
FOXNEWS.COM Tuesday, November 04, 2008

BOISE, Idaho — Confessed child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III received his final sentences Monday for the torture and slayings of an Idaho family with a judge telling him that his cruel rampage "exceeds the bounds of human understanding."

Six life prison terms in federal and state court were added to the death sentences a federal jury handed Duncan in August. He already is serving three life sentences handed to him by a state judge in 2006 on kidnapping counts.

In May 2005, Duncan kidnapped 9-year-old Dylan Groene, and his sister Shasta, then 8, from their Coeur d'Alene home and held them for weeks in western Montana. He tortured and sexually abused both children, eventually killing Dylan but Shasta was rescued after seven weeks.

Duncan had targeted the children, watching their home and killing their 13-year-old brother, Slade Groene, their mother, Brenda Groene, and her fiance, Mark McKenzie, in order to take the young siblings.

In state court Monday, Duncan was sentenced to three life terms for those murders, a penalty agreed upon mainly to spare Shasta the trauma of testifying. Shortly after that hearing, U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge sentenced Duncan to three federal life terms, one for kidnapping Shasta, and one each for sexually abusing Shasta and her brother.

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