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    Jenkins mutilates his throat, requires stitches

    Convicted killer Nikko Jenkins required stitches for his latest self-mutilation inside his jail cell.

    Jenkins is awaiting sentencing and possibly the death penalty for four counts of first-degree murder.

    Sources tell WOWT 6 News Jenkins somehow obtained a razor blade and reportedly cut himself across his throat. The injury required stitches.

    In July, a hearing was held to discuss how the inmate is gaining access to razor blades to do the self-damage.

    Jenkins sentencing for the murders is on hold while the Nebraska death penalty issue is debated and/or the law goes into effect August 29th.

    http://www.wowt.com/content/news/Jen...389013272.html

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    Too bad his self mutilation didn't result in his death. He is a psychopath and as long as he lives people are in danger.
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    Judge: Nikko Jenkins competent to face death penalty hearing

    OMAHA (AP) — A judge has ruled that an Omaha man convicted of killing four people in the summer of 2013 is mentally fit enough to face a death penalty hearing.

    Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon on Tuesday declared Nikko Jenkins competent. His death penalty hearing has been set for Nov. 14, when Jenkins will go before a three-judge panel that will decide whether his crimes merit the death penalty.

    The hearing has been delayed several times as mental health evaluations sought to determine whether Jenkins, who has mutilated himself multiple times in prison, is mentally competent.

    Jenkins was convicted in 2014 of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger.

    http://journalstar.com/news/local/91...ab84f570c.html

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    Nikko Jenkins' no contest pleas to 4 counts of murder stand

    OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the no contest pleas of an Omaha man later convicted of killing four people in the summer of 2013 will stand.

    The ruling Friday comes two weeks after the judge found Nikko Jenkins mentally competent enough to go through the sentencing phase. Jenkins faces the death penalty when that sentencing hearing is held on Nov. 14.

    Jenkins' court-appointed public defender, Tom Riley, had sought to withdraw the no-contest pleas Jenkins entered in 2014 while acting as his own attorney. But Jenkins adamantly opposed withdrawing the pleas.

    Jenkins was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths in and around Omaha of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger.

    http://www.dailyprogress.com/nikko-j...169bea3bd.html

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    Convicted killer Jenkins takes death penalty challenge to court

    Convicted killer Nikko Jenkins was back in court Thursday where his attorneys are challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty.

    Jenkins and his public defender also contend that the legislature's move to abolish capital punishment is another reason why Jenkins shouldn't be put to death.

    Jenkins also claims his No Contest plea isn't valid anymore due to what he says is, "new evidence" he uncovered. He's accusing OPD of misconduct and falsifying evidence.

    Jenkins is facing the possibility of execution for his conviction in four murders. In court on Thursday he said, "I never committed those crimes."

    He is scheduled to be sentenced November 14.

    http://www.1011now.com/content/news/...399857411.html
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    Nikko Jenkins sentencing today

    After months of delays, sentencing begins today for convicted killer Nikko Jenkins.

    A three judge panel will decide whether Jenkins will get the death penalty or life without parole for killing four people in August of 2013.

    Voters approved a referendum last Tuesday that restored capital punishment in Nebraska. Jenkins will be the first person to possibly be sentenced to death since that vote.

    http://www.kmtv.com/news/local-news/...ntencing-today
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    Judicial panel find death penalty can apply to Nikko Jenkins

    A three-judge panel has found enough aggravating factors for the death penalty to apply to a man convicted of killing four people in 2013.

    Now, the panel will weigh mitigating factors — such as the mental fitness of the defendant — presented by the public defender to determine whether Nikko Jenkins will be sentenced to death. That decision will be determined at a later date.

    The aggravating factors found by the panel Wednesday include that Jenkins killed multiple people and has a history of violence.

    Jenkins pleaded no contest to the August 2013 shooting deaths in and around Omaha of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger. The shotgun deaths in three separate attacks occurred over a 10-day period just weeks after Jenkins' release from prison.

    http://journalstar.com/news/state-an...ba3fd2166.html
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    2 may join Nebraska death row but will executions resume?

    After briefly repealing its death penalty only to have it reinstated by voters, Nebraska has resumed an effort to acquire drugs needed to carry out executions for the 1st time in 20 years, just as judges consider whether to increase death row by 2 men who between them killed 8 people.

    Nebraska is among the few states where those facing capital punishment have a remarkably good shot at ultimately dying of natural causes. Since 2001, four death row inmates have died of natural causes while awaiting execution, including one who died last year of brain cancer.

    Of the 10 people currently on Nebraska's death row, Carey Dean Moore has waited 37 years for his murder convictions in the 1979 shooting deaths of 2 Omaha cab drivers. He is among at least 24 of the nearly 3,000 death row inmates in the U.S. to have been sentenced in 1980 or earlier.

    "It's harder to carry out executions than many state officials like to admit," University of Nebraska-Lincoln law professor Eric Berger said. "The state moved to lethal injection (in 2009) in the hopes of being able to start carrying out executions again, but one thing after another has gotten in the way of the state's being able to do it."

    That has included the state's trouble obtaining the drugs it needs for lethal injections, said Berger, who worked with death penalty opponents during the recent ballot campaign that saw Nebraska's death penalty reinstated in November. The state paid more than $54,000 for a hard-to-find lethal injection drug nearly 2 years ago to a dealer based in India, but never received it because the federal government blocked the shipment over questions of the drug's legality.

    And then there are the multiple appeals filed by most death row inmates, Berg said.

    "Given that the state hasn't been able to get over those hurdles even once in the last 20 years, it should make us skeptical that it'll be able to do so consistently in the future," Berg said. "The one thing that is certain is that the state's efforts will take a lot of time and consume a lot of taxpayer dollars."

    Former Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg, who served as co-chair of the petition drive that led to the reinstatement of the state's death penalty, rejects the argument that enforcing the death penalty is substantially more expensive than life behind bars. Those with life sentences file about as many appeals as those facing death, he said.

    He also pointed to recent measures that could ease the way to again carrying out executions. One was a recently-enacted executive measure that would allow the corrections department to execute inmates with a single drug rather than multiple drugs, an action also taken by several other states. Another is a bill being considered by lawmakers that would keep secret the suppliers of the state's lethal injection drugs. Fifteen other states have enacted similar so-called shield laws.

    Enacting such a secrecy law will invariably lead to lawsuits and more death row appeals, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that opposes capital punishment and tracks the issue.

    "These secrecy provisions increasingly challenge the legitimacy of the death penalty," Dunham said. "People like public policy to be conducted in the open."

    Stenberg, now the state treasurer, said he heard the same doubts about the state's ability to carry out executions when he was the state's top prosecutor. When he was first elected in 1990, "the most recent execution at that time had been in 1959 with Charles Starkweather," he recalled.

    He went on to oversee 3 executions during his 12-year tenure. He was able to do so, he said, by asking for an execution date whenever he could.

    "It would force the defendants to take the next legal step available, pushing the process along," he said.

    Nebraska currently has no executions scheduled, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said.

    It remains to be seen whether 2 men convicted in capital murder cases in Omaha will join Nebraska's death row.

    Nikko Jenkins was convicted in 2014 of killing 4 people in 3 separate attacks in and around Omaha over the span of 10 days, just weeks after he had been released from prison. Anthony Garcia is a former medical doctor who was convicted in October of the revenge killings of 4 people, including the 11-year-old son of a faculty member he blamed in part for his firing 15 years ago from an Omaha medical school's pathology residency program.

    3-judge panels have determined that aggravating factors make both men eligible for the death penalty. The judges must now determine whether mitigating factors - such as childhood abuse or impaired mental capacity - exist that might spare them death and see them sentenced to life in prison. Their sentences are expected later this year.

    Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine, who prosecuted the Jenkins and Garcia cases, has said he's been frustrated by the inability of the state to carry out an execution since Robert Williams died in the electric chair in 1997. But he believes the death penalty is needed in cases where children, officers or multiple people have been killed.

    "I believe the death penalty is certainly merited in these cases," he said.

    http://www.kmtv.com/news/local-news/...aska-death-row

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    Today, Nikko Jenkins will learn his fate — life in prison or death

    By Todd Cooper
    The Omaha World-Herald

    A question, nearly four years in the making, will be answered today.

    Life or death?

    That is, should Nikko Jenkins, 30, receive life in prison or the death penalty for the savage killings of four Omahans over 10 days in 2013?

    Three judges — Peter Bataillon of Omaha, Mark Johnson of the Norfolk area and Terri Harder of the Kearney area — are scheduled to announce their decision at 3 p.m. today.

    To many outsiders, it may seem obvious. Execute four people? Get in line for execution yourself.

    But no-brainers are virtually nonexistent in the legal world. Consider: Jose “Carlos” Oliveira-Coutinho ordered the executions of an entire family — his boss, his boss’s wife and his boss’s 7-year-old son at a vacated South Omaha school in 2009 — and he received a life sentence. That decision came in part because one judge didn’t believe that Oliveira was the ringleader of the crime.

    There’s no question that Nikko Jenkins was the ringleader of the furious 10 days in 2013 that left four people dead from gunshot wounds to the head: Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz on Aug. 11, Curtis Bradford on Aug. 19 and Andrea Kruger on Aug. 21.

    But Jenkins’ defense has posed plenty of questions about whether he should receive the death penalty, namely by pointing to Jenkins’ troubled mental health history and the prison system’s resistance in getting him help.

    In effect, Douglas County Public Defender Tom Riley has put state prison officials’ treatment (or lack thereof) of Jenkins on trial. Riley has pointed out that a psychiatrist once diagnosed Jenkins as suffering from mental illness when he was just 8. Riley argues that Jenkins’ mental illness is real — and was exacerbated by placing him in solitary confinement for more than half of his original 10-year prison sentence.

    As Jenkins’ sister once put it, Nikko “is the state’s Frankenstein,” a monster the prison system created.

    Prosecutors bristle at the suggestion. They note that Jenkins had a history of violent and assaultive behavior before he entered prison. Twice when he was 15 he carjacked Omahans — saying he had a gun and forcing them to drive him places. Shortly after entering prison he was a player in a violent uprising over the Fourth of July.

    And prosecutors dispute that Jenkins ever suffered from a major mental illness that would have clouded his judgment. They note that Jenkins used to wear his purported schizophrenia like a badge, bragging about it — which is virtually unheard of among people who truly suffer from schizophrenia. Several state psychiatrists believe that he is feigning mental illness — and making up his claims that he was commanded to kill by a serpent god.

    Sorting out who is right is the job of the judges.

    A look at the crimes, the case and the life-or-death issues of State v. Jenkins:

    The crime

    Aug. 11, 2013: On just his 12th day after leaving a Nebraska prison, Jenkins recruited his sister Erica Jenkins and cousin Christine Bordeaux to help with a scheme: He wanted to rob bar patrons at Tquila, a nightclub at 30th and L Streets.

    In an interview with police, Jenkins described the plan: “In robberies like this, you cruise the bars looking for paisos, the Mexicans. They always have big belt buckles, big cowboy boots and big hats.”

    Uribe-Pena and Cajiga-Ruiz had just gotten off work and stopped at the bar.

    Erica Jenkins and Bordeaux lured them to Spring Lake Park on the pretense that they would party — and the women would perform sex acts.

    After Uribe-Pena and Cajiga-Ruiz arrived, Nikko Jenkins pounced. He used a 12-gauge shotgun to blow a hole in the head of Uribe-Pena as he sat in the front seat of a pickup on a dead-end road in the South Omaha park.

    He then walked around to the other side of the pickup, jamming a shotgun in Cajiga-Ruiz’s face. Cajiga-Ruiz ducked, covering the side of his face with his hand.

    A shot went through Cajiga-Ruiz’s hand, and his temple.

    The quote

    “These guys out here — they’re dead. Their families are going ‘What the (expletive) did they do? What did they do wrong?’ They did nothing. They went out on a Saturday night and had a good time.” — Omaha Police Detective Dave Schneider, during an interview with Jenkins.

    The crime

    Aug. 19, 2013: On his 20th day as a free man, Jenkins again paired up with his sister Erica.

    During a night of hanging out with Curtis Bradford — a former prisoner — the brother-sister combo hatched a plan. They’d lure Bradford on the pretense that the three were going to commit a robbery.

    They gave Bradford an unloaded weapon. As the three circled a house near 18th and Clark Streets, Erica Jenkins fired a shot into the back of Bradford’s head.

    Nikko Jenkins then thrust a shotgun against Bradford’s head and fired.

    In his interview with police, Jenkins initially denied killing his “homeboy.”

    “This is my own little homie,” Jenkins protested. “It’s on Facebook, me and him together throwing up gang signs.”

    But several family members testified as to how Nikko and Erica returned from killing Bradford. Both were exhilarated after the killing, relatives said. And for a moment, Erica was infuriated.

    The quote

    “Erica stated it was her first murder. She expressed her frustrations of Nikko shooting Curtis after she did. It was like taking claim for her first kill.” — cousin Brian Easterling, recounting the siblings’ feud

    The crime

    Aug. 21, 2013: On his 22nd day of freedom, Jenkins had an ill-formed plan: steal a car so he and relatives could rob people attending a Lil Wayne concert in downtown Omaha.

    So Jenkins, sister Erica, cousin Bordeaux and uncle Warren Levering headed to west Omaha.

    There they spotted 33-year-old Andrea Kruger in the drive-thru of a McDonald’s. Kruger had just finished her work shift at a bar and was on her way home to her husband and three kids.

    As she drove home near 168th and Fort Streets, Erica Jenkins pulled in front of her, blocking Kruger’s SUV. Jenkins and Levering spilled out of the car, thrust a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle in Kruger’s face, pulled her from the vehicle and shot her four times as she pleaded for her life.

    The quote

    “A 33-year-old gal with three kids. ... She didn’t deserve that, Nikko. ...Why? Why? Just one day I’d like to tell the family that. Why? Why her?” — Douglas County Sheriff’s Sgt. John Pankonin, questioning Jenkins in a police interview

    The defense against death

    Jenkins’ response to Pankonin encapsulates part of the defense’s argument against the death penalty.

    Pressed as to why he killed, Jenkins said: “I need to talk to (Kruger’s husband, Michael-Ryan Kruger). When this case opens up and he sees those facts, he’s not going to hate me or anyone else. You know who he’s going to be angry with? Those officials — Nebraska Department of Corrections — who (didn’t get) me proper treatment.”

    Translated, Riley — Jenkins’ attorney — argues that Jenkins’ prison treatment has exacerbated his mental illness.

    And the defense suggests that Jenkins’ mental illness — which Riley labels “severe” — should be a mitigating factor that spares Jenkins the death penalty.

    Riley argued that Jenkins’ case falls under two mitigating factors:

    » The crimes were “committed while the offender was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance.”

    » “The capacity of the defendant to appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her conduct ... was impaired as a result of mental illness, mental defect or intoxication.”

    Additionally, Riley argued that the judges should find that Jenkins has lost his sanity since the killings, again in part due to his continual jailing in solitary confinement.

    Riley noted that the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986 prohibited “inflicting the penalty of death upon a prisoner who is insane.”

    “We do not execute the mentally ill,” Riley wrote. “Jenkins’ mental illness is not one of choice. It is of long-standing duration and exacerbated by significant time in solitary confinement while continuously incarcerated for the 10-plus years prior to these homicides.”

    Riley closed his argument by pointing to the Oliveira case and three other triple-homicide cases where the killers received life sentences.

    “We request the court take particular notice of those cases with multiple homicides wherein the defendants did not receive the death penalty.”

    Prosecutors' pursuit of death

    Jenkins’ perceived mistreatment in prison isn’t mitigation for his actions afterward, prosecutors argue.

    It’s motive.

    Prosecutors pointed to records “replete” with threats by Jenkins to harm others if he didn’t get his way in prison.

    As Jenkins told police after the killings: “The Nebraska Department of Corrections is so responsible. This is equivalent to me being a pit bull that they pull off that chain and whoever it hurt, you’re responsible for it. Because you knew the danger of the animal, knew the danger that you created in that cell. ... You know I told them that? I told them.”

    That attitude amounts to clear-minded motive for murder, showing a logical thought process, even if it is diabolical, prosecutors argue.

    Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine pointed out that case law indicates that a defendant must suffer from mental illness so “extreme” that it “rendered him unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of his actions.”

    “The state would highlight the alarming amount of homicidal and violent threats made by the defendant (in prison), but would also point out that many of these were accompanied by demands,” Kleine wrote. “A defendant should not be able to create a reason to necessitate some sort of segregation by consistently disregarding Corrections rules, being a disturbance and acting in a violent manner but then request leniency (because) of his own actions.”

    In their research of other Nebraska death penalty cases, Kleine and a deputy county attorney, Katie Benson, said they could find none that matched the brutality of “the case at hand, wherein one defendant randomly murders four people ... over a 10-day period.”

    Prosecutors closed their argument by citing language from a Nebraska Supreme Court ruling upholding a death sentence for a man who killed a 3-year-old child.

    “The depravity shown from these facts stands out and sets this case apart from other Nebraska cases where the death sentence was not imposed. It shows a mind so bereft of redemption that justice demands a sentence of death.”

    The troubled life and times of Nikko Jenkins

    Sept. 16, 1986: Nikko A. Jenkins is born in Colorado to Lori Jenkins and David A. Magee, a felon who has since died of natural causes.

    Sept. 24, 1993: at age 7 takes loaded .25-caliber handgun to Omaha’s Highland Elementary; is placed in temporary state custody

    Dec. 1, 1997: at 11, admits to one count felony theft

    Feb. 27, 1998: accused of assaulting other minors at residential facility; saying Nikko is danger to himself and others, prosecutor moves to send him to Douglas County Youth Detention Center

    Dec. 21, 1998: ordered back to juvenile center because of assault with knife

    Feb. 28, 2000: as part of his probation, is ordered by court to attend school, get psychiatric evaluation, continue therapy, take drug awareness class and undergo drug tests

    June 24, 2002: at age 15 carjacks, robs man at gunpoint near 42nd and Seward Streets

    Aug. 26, 2002: carjacks woman at gunpoint at grocery store near 24th Street and Redick Avenue

    Jan. 23, 2003: at age 16 is jailed on robbery warrants

    Oct. 17, 2003: sentenced to five years for one carjacking, eight to 10 years for the other

    July 4, 2005: charged with second-degree assault after an inmate fight; later sentenced to additional two years

    Dec. 17, 2009: assaults corrections officer while on furlough for his grandmother’s funeral; later sentenced to two to four years, with credit for 513 days served

    July 30, 2013: at age 26, released from Nebraska prison after 10˝ years

    Aug. 11, 2013: Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz go out to meet two women. Later they are found dead in a pickup truck near the entrance road to Spring Lake Park in South Omaha.

    Aug. 19, 2013: Curtis Bradford, a former prisoner with Jenkins, is found dead near 18th and Clark Streets, wearing a hoodie and gloves.

    Aug. 21, 2013: Andrea Kruger, a married mother of three, drives home from her work shift at a bar. She is found fatally shot in the intersection of 168th and Fort Streets.

    Sept. 3, 2013: Jenkins calls Sgt. John Pankonin, says he has information on Kruger killing; Pankonin interviews Jenkins

    Sept. 4, 2013: makes statements that incriminate him in all four killings

    Sept. 5, 2013: charged with four counts of first-degree murder; prosecutors file for the death penalty

    March 20, 2014: After Jenkins files several motions, Judge Peter Bataillon rules that Jenkins can represent himself.

    April 16, 2014: Jenkins states his desire to plead no contest to all counts against him. In a bizarre hearing, Bataillon first says Jenkins must plead guilty to the murders and describe what he did to the victims. The judge then changes his mind and allows Jenkins to plead no contest.

    May 6, 2014: Bataillon sets death penalty hearing for Aug. 11, 2014

    May 7, 2014: Dr. Bruce Gutnik, the defense psychiatrist, writes a report detailing concerns about Jenkins’ competency. Among other things, Jenkins has mutilated himself.

    July 10, 2014: second competency hearing

    July 18, 2014: Bataillon rules that Jenkins is not competent to proceed with the death penalty phase.

    March 2, 2015: Jenkins is declared competent. He tells Bataillon that any more evaluations by Gutnik would be a “waste of time.”

    March 24, 2015: judge sets death penalty hearing for July 7, 2015

    April 2015: Jenkins tries to carve “666” into his forehead but does it backward because he is looking in a mirror.

    June 27, 2015: Jenkins slices his tongue and carves the word “satan” on his face.

    Oct. 5, 2015: Bataillon sets the death penalty hearing for Jan. 4, 2016.

    November 2015: Jenkins says he has sliced his penis again and has a total of 65 stitches on his face and penis.

    Dec. 11, 2015: Bataillon orders another competency evaluation; death penalty hearing delayed again

    November 2016: The death penalty hearing is held.

    May 11, 2017: three-judge panel convenes in private to deliberate Jenkins’ fate

    http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/toda...042e8f60b.html

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    Nikko Jenkins sentenced to death for murders of 4 people

    By Todd Cooper
    The Omaha World-Herald

    Nikko Jenkins is now headed to death row – virtually the only place he hasn't been in prison – for the savage attacks that left four Omahans dead.

    Judges Peter Bataillon of Omaha, Mark Johnson of the Norfolk area and Terri Harder of the Kearney area announced their decision condemning Jenkins to death.

    Jenkins went on a tear of terror less than two weeks after his release from prison.

    On Aug. 11, 2013, he orchestrated a plan to have his sister Erica Jenkins and cousin Christine Bordeaux to go the Tquila Bar at 30th and L Streets and lure two men to Spring Lake Park in South Omaha on the pretense that the women would perform sex acts.

    Two men — Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz — followed Erica Jenkins and Christine Bordeaux to the park. Jenkins pounced, using a 12-gauge shotgun to blow a hole in Uribe-Pena’s head. He then turned the gun on Cajiga-Ruiz, who covered his head in the hopes that Jenkins wouldn’t shoot him. Jenkins did — blowing a hole through Cajiga-Ruiz’s hand and head.

    On Aug. 19, 2013, Jenkins developed another scheme. During a night of hanging out with Curtis Bradford, he and sister Erica Jenkins talked Bradford into going to commit a “lick” — street slang for a robbery. As they circled a house near 18th and Clark Streets, Nikko and Erica Jenkins both shot Bradford in the back of the head.

    On Aug. 21, 2013, Jenkins hatched his last plan. He, sister Erica, cousin Bordeaux and uncle Warren Levering would carjack someone from west Omaha, drive the stolen car downtown and rob people who had attended the Lil Wayne rap concert at the CenturyLink Center. The four spotted Andrea Kruger, 31, in her gold-colored SUV in the drive-thru of a McDonald’s near 168th Street and West Maple Road. As she drove home to her husband, Michael-Ryan, and three children, Jenkins and his relatives pulled around her and stopped at the intersection of 168th and West Maple Road. Jenkins and Levering got out of the car. Jenkins pulled Kruger out of the car and shot her four times.

    Prosecutors proved six counts of aggravating factors that could merit the death penalty. The judges found that Jenkins — who had served 10 years in prison for two carjackings committed at age 15 — had a substantial history of terrorizing behavior before the four killings. They also twice found the aggravating factor that he killed multiple people at virtually the same time. Those two aggravating factors applied to the killings of Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz.

    Jenkins’ attorney, Douglas County Public Defender Tom Riley, argued that two mitigating factors should weigh against the death penalty. Riley said Jenkins suffered from a mental illness that clouded his thinking. He also said Jenkins currently suffers from a mental illness that should bar the state from killing him. Riley noted that the state should not execute an insane person.

    http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/nikk...317b69244.html

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