Summary of Offense:

Hines was convicted of the September 15, 1986 killing of Kathryn Roberts, 33, and her 14-year-old daughter, Donna, so he could steal the family’s bright pink 1923 Model T Ford. Hines, 20 at the time, went to the Roberts home with a 16-year-old accomplice and bound, gagged and blindfolded Donna Roberts, then shot her to death. When her mother came home, Hines shot her, then drove off in the distinctive car. He was arrested the next day when police spotted the vehicle partially covered by quilts and cardboard at a house on Ascot Avenue. After Hines was convicted, he telephoned one of the jurors, a woman in her 80s, to ask her about the jury’s deliberations. The woman hung up on him and reported the call to the judge. She was allowed to participate in the penalty phase of the trial after assuring the judge the call did not influence her. As a court clerk polled the jury, the woman loudly declared her vote: “Death.”

Hines was sentenced to death in Sacramento County on July 8, 1988.