2 MEN GET DEATH PENALTIES IN KILLINGS; SENTENCES GIVEN FOR 1991 MURDERS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Death will be the only way to stop ``Big Evil,'' a judge said Friday. Cleamon ``Big Evil'' Johnson, 29, and Michael ``Fat Rat'' Allen, 25, who police believe are responsible for 60 killings, were sentenced to death for the murders of two potential witnesses who had planned to testify against members of Johnson's gang. ``Mr. Johnson is a cold-blooded and cunning murderer,'' said Judge Charles Horan, who called death the ``only appropriate sentence in this case.'' Prosecutors said they have had a hard time getting convictions against Johnson and members of his 89 Family Bloods gang because they kill or threaten to kill witnesses. ``He's earned every bit of penalty he faces,'' prosecutor Jennifer Lentz Snyder said. Johnson supplied the Uzi submachine gun Uzi submachine gun Compact automatic weapon used throughout the world as a police and special-forces firearm. It was named for its designer, Uziel Gal, an Israeli officer who developed it after the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. It is 25.6 in. Allen used to kill Donald Ray Loggins and Payton Beroit at a South Central Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. carwash in 1991, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. testimony. Prosecutors went to great lengths during the trial to keep the names and addresses of the witnesses a secret to protect them from retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and . Allen is already serving a 35-years-to-life sentence for a 1992 murder. |
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