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'Sausage king' receives death sentence (http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/16/sausage.factory.shootings.ap/index.html#1)
Case of man killing meat inspectors faces automatic appeal

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Posted: 2:05 PM EST (1905 GMT)

OAKLAND, California (AP) -- A sausage factory owner was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing three meat inspectors nearly five years ago.

Stuart Alexander, 43, the self-proclaimed "sausage king," was convicted in October of three counts of first-degree murder for the 2000 shooting deaths of two federal inspectors and one state inspector at his factory in San Leandro.

A jury recommended December 14 that he be put to death, and an Alameda County judge upheld the sentence. The case will be automatically appealed to the state Supreme Court.

Alexander's public defenders had argued that their client was driven to kill after months of harassment by the inspectors, and the death penalty wasn't intended for "emotion driven killings."

Prosecutors argued that Alexander hatched a "diabolical plan" to kill the inspectors, get away with it by pleading insanity, then write a book or movie to profit and gain notoriety from the crime.

The murders were captured on the factory's surveillance videotape, which was shown to jurors during the five-month trial.

After Alexander killed the three inspectors, he fired at and chased a fourth inspector for several blocks from the Santos Linguisa Factory.

He put their bodies in the sausage, right?  Tell me he put their bodies in the sausage.

"Can you describe Abe Froman?"
"He's wearing a leather jacket. White t-shirt. And is devilishly handsome."

Beuller... Beuller... Beuller...

Finally someone who "gets it".

Finally someone who "gets it".

I "got it" when I first saw the thread, but I thought actually trying to be cool and point out what the thread title referred to would actually be uncool.

Bruce

I thought it would be cool to say "Abe Froman?  I thought he was from Chicago," thereby demonstrating that I got it without being overly obvious to those who didn't get it that I was demonstrating my own coolness.  But after reading farther down in the thread I realize that posting that would just be really lame.  Damn.

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‘Sausage king’ killer dies in prison (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10618237/)

Man on death row for killing meat inspectors found dead at San Quentin

Updated: 3:20 p.m. ET Dec. 27, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO - Self-proclaimed “sausage king” Stuart Alexander died Tuesday at San Quentin Prison while on death row for killing three meat inspectors.

Alexander, 44, was under a suicide watch at the time. The cause of death was not immediately known, but Sgt. Eric Messick said there were no signs of suicide or foul play. An autopsy was planned.

Messick said Alexander’s mental health had deteriorated after he was sentenced to death in February for the 2000 shooting deaths at his factory in San Leandro.

The slayings were captured on the factory’s surveillance videotape, which was shown to the jury at the trial.

Alexander’s lawyers contended that he snapped and killed the inspectors after months of harassment. They argued for a voluntary manslaughter conviction.

He had been cited repeatedly for problems at his factory, with inspectors ordering him to raise the cooking temperature of his meat.

2000 shooting deaths

on death row

under a suicide watch at the time