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| Man in N.Y. Wendy's Shooting Sentenced to Die |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/09/2002 |
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The man behind a robbery-massacre at a Wendy's restaurant was sentenced to death on November 26, more than two years after he and an accomplice herded seven employees into a freezer and murdered five of them. John Taylor, 38, stood stone-faced as the jury's decision was read while the victims' family wept quietly in the courtroom. He was sentenced to die by injection for killing two of the employees, but prosecutors say he plotted the attack and commanded his mentally retarded accomplice to kill. The robbery netted about $2,400, mostly coins. A day earlier, Taylor publicly apologized, reciting the names of his victims before expressing his remorse. 'I've shamed my family and shamed my children,' he said. 'I know you cannot forgive me. I don't expect you to. I'm sorry.' Taylor joins five other men on death row in New York. The state last executed an inmate in 1963 and reinstated the death penalty in 1995. Taylor's sentence was automatically appealed. According to prosecutors, Taylor and Craig Godineaux were eating in the Queens restaurant just before closing. Taylor, a former employee, approached manager Jean Auguste and the two went to the basement. Auguste then called the rest of the employees downstairs over the intercom and Godineaux followed. Jacquoine Johnson, 20, one of the two survivors, said he got downstairs and found the restaurant's safe wide open and Auguste's office in disarray. Then he saw Taylor, standing with a gun and telling everyone to lie on the floor. Godineaux bound and gagged everyone with duct tape, and Taylor ordered them into the freezer. Godineaux pulled plastic bags over their heads and the massacre began. In gripping testimony, Johnson said he was able to see out of one eye from under the bag, and watched Taylor shoot one of the victims. Johnson turned his head away as he heard two more shots fired. When he looked again, he said, he saw Taylor hand the gun to Godineaux and tell him to 'finish the job.' Taylor's lawyers admitted their client shot Auguste, but said Godineaux shot everyone else. Prosecutors, however, said Taylor planned the crime, gunned down two people and ordered Godineaux to kill the rest. Godineaux, 32, pleaded guilty last year to shooting five of the victims, three fatally. He was ineligible for the death penalty because he is retarded, and instead received five life sentences. |
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