http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...commends-death-for-alcala-for-third-time.html
An Orange County jury needed just a few hours Tuesday to hand down the death penalty for Rodney James Alcala, convicted last week of murdering four Los Angeles County women and a 12-year-old girl from Huntington Beach in the late 1970s.
It was the third time Alcala, 66, has been convicted for the murder of Robin Samsoe, 12, last seen alive riding her bike to ballet class in June 1979. He had been condemned to death both times, but the convictions were overturned. He has been in custody since his 1979 arrest.
...During his closing arguments Tuesday, Alcala -- a onetime photographer and Dating Game contestant who acted as his own attorney in this trial -- asked jurors to spare him the death penalty, saying they would become killers themselves if they sent him to death row and arguing that the sentence would lead to decades of appeals.
By assigning the death penalty, you become a wannabe killer in waiting, Alcala told jurors before playing a portion of Alices Restaurant, a rambling 18-minute Vietnam War protest song by folk singer Arlo Guthrie. In the section played, a man being drafted for war tells a military psychiatrist:
Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth...I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.
As the word reverberated through the Santa Ana courtroom, Robert Samsoe, Robins brother, stood up and walked out.