GUILTY TX - Six Stay family members slain in their Spring home, 9 July 2014

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Jury deliberations begin in Stay family mass murder trial

A jury is now deliberating admitted mass murderer Ronald Haskell's fate.

Haskell walked into the courtroom Wednesday as his capital murder trial entered its final chapter.

Lone survivor Cassidy Stay was back in the courtroom too to face him during closing arguments.

"It's not a coincidence he picked July 9, 2014 to go to the Stays' house," said prosecutor Samantha Knecht. "It's one year to the day and time he was served with a protective order. That's when the revenge in his heart began to grow."

 

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UH Law Center‏ @UHLAW 7m7 minutes ago
Professor Thompson was quoted in a Houston Chronicle article discussing the insanity defense being used in the trial of Ronald Lee Haskell, who admits that he fatally shot six members of his ex-wife’s family at their Spring-area home. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-lawyers-try-to-clear-high-hurdle-of-14452855.php#photo-18169785 …

 

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Samantha Ketterer‏ @sam_kett 4m4 minutes ago
Verdict is in: Jurors find Ronald Lee Haskell GUILTY of capital murder in the 2014 Stay family massacre.

 

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CA Man Convicted in ‘Cold-Blooded Execution’ of Ex-Wife’s Family

Sept 26, 2019

"A California man accused of driving across the country to kill six of his ex-wife’s family members in a “cold-blooded execution” fueled by revenge was found guilty of capital murder on Thursday.

Ronald Lee Haskell, 39, now faces the death penalty for the July 2014 massacre of Katie Stay, 34, her 39-year-old husband, Stephen, and four of their five children inside their suburban Houston home.

The only survivor of the bloodbath, 19-year-old Cassidy Stay, who played dead after Haskell shot her in the head, cried in the courtroom’s front row along with several family members as the verdict was read.

“This was anger, rage. This was vengeance and it was not a serious mental illness,” Harris County Assistant District Attorney Samantha Knecht said in court, adding that he was “not a disorganized, psychotic individual. That is a man with a plan.”..."

https://1buv.com/ca-man-convicted-in-cold-blooded-execution-of-ex-wifes-family/

(Haskell is accused of shooting and killing Stephen and Katie Stay [pictured center] along with their two sons and two of their daughters, with only the eldest [far left] surviving )

 

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Texas jury convicts man of killing 6 of ex-wife’s family

Sept 26, 2019

"...Jurors deliberated for eight hours over two days before rejecting Ronald Lee Haskell’s insanity defense. His attorneys had argued that Haskell believed voices in his head were telling him to kill the Stay family at their suburban Houston home in 2014.

Jurors will next hear evidence in the trial’s punishment phase before deciding whether to sentence Haskell, 39, to life in prison or death...."

Texas jury convicts man of killing 6 of ex-wife's family

 

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Very good.

 

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“There was never a reasonable doubt that Haskell meticulously planned and carried out the slaughter of the Stay family.”

“He absolutely knew what he was doing that day,” prosecutor Samantha Knetch said during closing arguments on Wednesday, according to the New York Daily News. “He took steps to hide, to disguise and to plan this execution."

His sentencing has been scheduled for Monday at 9 a.m., according to a spokesperson for the Harris County District Attorney.
California Man Found Guilty In 'Cold-Blooded' Slaughter Of 4 Kids And Their Parents

 

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“I don’t feel guilty yet”; Haskell’s response to family in jail phone call after slaying Stay family

Oct. 3, 2019

"Ronald Haskell failed to take full responsibility for killing six members of the Stay family during a series of jail phone calls to his relatives, an investigator said Thursday during the punishment phase of the defendant’s capital murder trial...."

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/I-don-t-feel-guilty-yet-Haskell-s

 

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A Texas jury sentenced a man who killed six members of his ex-wife’s family to death Friday after approximately four hours of deliberations.

The same jury convicted Ronald Lee Haskell of capital murder last month, rejecting claims of mental illness by Haskell's lawyers. The defense argued hard for a life sentence during the penalty phase this week, with one saying the 39-year-old Haskell should spend the rest of his life thinking about what he has done and "die in prison."

Texas man sentenced to death penalty after killing six members of his ex-wife's family

 

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After Friday's verdict, Cassidy Stay told reporters she hopes what she experienced will give others strength to face difficulties in their own lives.

"I did not think I would lose my whole family in a matter of seconds. If I can get through this, you can get through what you're going through, and you're going to be OK," Stay said.
'Please don't hurt us': Man sentenced to death for attack that killed 6 family members

 

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Wednesday's ruling comes after the Harris County District Attorney's Office wanted Cornelio to be removed from Ronald Lee Haskell's case after she ordered him back to Harris County under unusual circumstances last summer.

The initial motion for her recusal was filed Oct. 7, 2024, "based on conduct indicating that she has cast aside her role as a neutral, detached decision maker to become an advocate for death row inmate Ronald Lee Haskell," it reads.

Judge accused of bias removed from case of death row inmate who killed ex-wife's family in Spring

A judge has granted the state's motion to recuse District Court Judge Natalia Cornelio from Ron Haskell's case. Haskell killed six of his family members at their Spring home in 2014.

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