State Seeks Death Penalty for Former Marine in Family’s Deaths

State Seeks Death Penalty for Former Marine in Family’s Deaths
Bryan Riley. Polk County Sheriff's Office/via AP
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LAKELAND, Fla.—Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a 33-year-old former Marine accused of massacring a Florida family under the delusion that they were child sex traffickers.

In a news release sent Friday, the state attorney’s office said the killings of a Lakeland man, his girlfriend, their baby, and the child’s grandmother were “committed on a cold, calculated and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification.”