Youth faces death sentence
NZPA-Reuter Seattle A 16-year-old youth was found guilty of three counts of murder in a case that shocked the small Pacific north-west town and may put him on Washington state’s death row. The defendant, Sean Stevenson, whose hometown on the Columbia River about 160 km east of Vancouver was named after his ancestors, was convicted of killing his stepfather, James Butler, aged 48; his mother, Margaret Butler, aged 35, and his sister, Amy Stevenson,
aged 18. The three were shot to death last New Year’s Day, and the girl had been raped. Prosecutors, who said they will seek the death penalty, maintained during the trial that Stevenson was a lust-driven killer who had a bad relationship with his stepfather. The penalty phase is expected to begin next week, prosecutors said. Stevenson showed little emotion when the verdict was read in Clark County Superior Court.
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Press, 13 May 1987, Page 26
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