Alfonso Sanchez was convicted earlier this week of killing two people in a Warminster apartment. A jury, after his second trial in the case, handed down the death penalty for one of those killings.
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) A man has been sentenced to death again following a retrial for the slaying of two people in a suburban Philadelphia apartment more than a decade ago. Alfonso Sanchez, 41, was sentenced Wednesday by the same Bucks County jury that convicted him of first-degree murder Monday in the 2007 shooting deaths of 27-year-old Lisa Diaz and 22-year-old Mendez Thomas in Warminster, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported .
District Attorney Matt Weintraub said he was “ecstatic” to be able to bring the case to a close “for the family after they waited patiently for 16 years,” The Inquirer reported.