Daniel Carl Frederickson


Summary of Offense:

A former mental patient with a lengthy criminal record, was sentenced to death in Orange County on January 9, 1998 for shooting and murdering hardware store manager Scott Wilson on June 13, 1996 after he refused to give him money from a safe. Frederickson demanded that he represent himself at trial, and argued that he was legally insane, a strategy that did not play well with jurors. He challenged jurors to look him in the eye if they gave him the death penalty. They did, with intensity.