After acknowledging to police that he had shot and...

After acknowledging to police that he had shot and killed a woman, Juan Jose Reynosa said he didn't want to spend a long time in prison. "Just give me the needle," he told detectives. A jury granted his request Wednesday. Reynosa, 24, was sentenced to death for the capital murder of Tonya Lynn Riedel, 44, during a robbery on March 2, 2003. State District Judge Jim Wallace sentenced Reynosa to death after jurors decided that he poses a continuing threat to society and that any mitigating circumstances were insufficient to justify sparing his life.