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Murder victim s family says outgoing state attorney wrong to revoke death penalty
Death penalty off table in murder-for-hire case
A family s pain has been compounded after a suspect in a murder-for-hire plot will not qualify for the death penalty.
ORLANDO, Fla. - The family of a woman killed in a botched murder-for-hire case said outgoing State Attorney Aramis Ayala was wrong after revoking the death penalty without asking how they felt.
It has been three years since 42-year-old Janice Zengottia-Torres was kidnapped outside a store and mistakenly killed in what authorities called a love triangle murder-for-hire plot.
Ayala appointed a review panel that decided to seek the death penalty against two of the three suspects, Ishnar Marie Lopez and Alexis Ramos-Rivera. However, during her final days as state attorney for Orange and Osceola counties, Ayala revoked the death penalty in three different cases, including this one. She cited the defendant s age and lack of significant cri