Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett
Hugo Selenski
Selenski death penalty notice amended
A conviction earlier this year for a home invasion in Monroe County could factor into whether Hugo Selenski is sentenced to death if he is convicted for a pair of Luzerne County killings.
Prosecutors filed an amended notice of aggravating circumstances Thursday, citing Selenski's "significant history of felony convictions involving the use or threat of violence" as a ground for capital punishment in the murder case.
Selenski is accused of killing Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett in May 2002. He was convicted in July on 14 charges related to the Monroe County home invasion, including robbery, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy.
According to Monroe County prosecutors, Selenski and a co-defendant broke into a secluded Chestnuthill Township home, bound the owner, Samuel Goosay, with duct tape, plastic ties and handcuffs, and held him at gunpoint while demanding $20,000.
In their initial filing, Luzerne County prosecutors established three grounds for a death sentence for Selenski. They alleged Selenski committed the killings while committing another felony; that he had been convicted of another offense, a 1991 bank robbery, that could have been punishable by life in prison; and that he committed a previous killing, or two or more killings at the same time.
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