Benjamin Wayne Watta
Summary of Offense:
Benjamin Wayne Watta, an ex-convict from Florida, was sentenced to death in Orange County on January 20, 2009 for the rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman who was attacked when she went to feed her neighbor's cats on March 23, 1980. He was linked to the murder years later by conclusive DNA evidence. Judge James A. Stotler found that the aggravating circumstances involved in the 1980 murder of Simone Sharpe, 70, far outweighed the mitigating factors of Watta's loveless childhood.
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