USA - California. A Jury Recommended Death for Hilbert Pineil Thomas, 42, Black.

An Orange County Jury Recommended Death for Hilbert Pineil Thomas, 42, Black. He was convicted Feb. 11 of two counts of murder -- with jurors finding true special circumstance allegations of multiple murders, murder during a robbery and murder during a burglary -- for killing 49-year-old Elizabeth Palmer and 42-year-old Matthew Francis Scott on Feb. 2, 2009. Thomas will be formally sentenced on April 25.