USA - California. A jury recommended that Joseph Mercado be sentenced to death

A Los Angeles County jury recommended that Joseph Mercado, 32, Hispanic, be sentenced to death for murdering 3 persons 5 years ago. Mercado is due back in a Norwalk courtroom Jan. 29 to be formally sentenced by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Raul A. Sahagun. Mercado was convicted last week of 1st-degree murder for the May 6, 2010, killings of his ex-girlfriend, Serena Tarin, 23, and her father, Alfredo Tarin, 53, and 19-year-old brother, Alfred "A.D." Tarin.