Mother speaks about daughter's killer's death sentence
ROANOKE, Va. — A Northern Virginia man will die for killing and raping a Botetourt County native three years ago.
A jury convicted Mark Lawlor of murder for beating Genevieve Orange in her Falls Church apartment in September 2008.
Today a Fairfax County judge handed down the death penalty. Orange grew up in Botetourt County and graduated from Tech in 2001. Her autopsy showed she was hit with a hammer nearly 50 times and then sexually assaulted. Lawlor worked at the apartment complex and used a key to enter her home.
Speaking from her Botetourt County home, Marilyn Orange is reminded everyday of her Gini. A cherry tree in the front yard was planted in her memory.
"Well at first you play like it's not her," she says. "He killed somebody else in her apartment. That's how you get through it."
She believes Lawlor needs to die.
"If they ever allowed him out he'd do it again," she remarks. "That I'm sure of. I've said that all along. So what else do you do with him?"
He had a prior criminal history and his laywer's argued he was high on crack at the time of the murder. At his sentencing, Lawlor said, "I hate what I became and what I did."
http://articles.wdbj7.com/2011-06-23...ounty_29697133
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