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NewsApril 17, 2008

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- A St. Louis County judge sentences a quadruple murderer to death by lethal injection. There was no noticable reaction from 43-year-old Leonard Taylor when the sentence was handed down by Judge James Hartenbach on Thursday. A jury recommended death for Taylor in February after finding him guilty of the 2004 murders of his girlfriend 28-year-old Angela Rowe, and her three young children...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- A St. Louis County judge sentences a quadruple murderer to death by lethal injection.

There was no noticable reaction from 43-year-old Leonard Taylor when the sentence was handed down by Judge James Hartenbach on Thursday. A jury recommended death for Taylor in February after finding him guilty of the 2004 murders of his girlfriend 28-year-old Angela Rowe, and her three young children.

The victims were found shot to death in their Jennings home.

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Taylor is already serving a 100-year sentence for a previous rape conviction.

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