Preston Strong sentenced to death
On Friday a jury sentenced an Arizona prisoner convicted of killing six people in Yuma in 2005 to death.
Yuma County Superior Court officials say jurors began deliberating Friday after hearing closing arguments in the penalty phase of the trial of 50-year-old Preston Strong. All 12 members were in agreement of the death penalty.
Strong was convicted April 25 of six counts of first-degree murder.
He’s already serving a life sentence for a separate slaying in 2007.
Prosecutors say Strong spent hours killing 35-year-old Luis Rios, 29-year-old Adrienne Heredia and her four children, ages 6 to 13.
They say Strong and Rios had been arguing over money and how much time he had been spending with Rios and her children.
