Angelo Michael Melendez
Facts of the Crime:
On December 13, 2000, Melendez murdered Stagg High School athletic standout Koi Wilson and left Ricky Lee Richardson paralyzed after a robbery of money and drugs.
On New Year's Day 2007, in Stockton, California, Lynette Denney died, "for the second time," reports Sara Cardine in the Stockton Record. In 1980, when she was 22, Angelo Michael Melendez shot her in the head and left her for dead. Lynette had refused to have sex with Melendez, and he shot her "at point-blank range under each eye." Miraculously, she didn't die, but complications following surgery "caused her to fall into a permanent, semi-vegetative state." As described in the story, her family cared for her for the next 27 years. Melendez got seven years for this crime, and he was released on parole after five.
Melendez was sentenced to death on August 18, 2003 in San Joaquin County.
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