USA - California. An Orange County jury recommended that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 43, black, be executed

An Orange County jury recommended that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 43, black, be executed for his role in the murders at sea of a couple in a plot to steal their yacht. The same jury convicted Kennedy last week for the Nov. 14, 2004, killings of yacht owners Thomas and Jackie Hawks. They were subdued aboard their boat, the Well Deserved, forced to sign sales documents, tied to an anchor and thrown overboard while they were still alive. Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel scheduled Kennedy's official sentencing for March 27. No Orange County judge has ever reversed a jury's death verdict at sentencing. Kennedy is the third defendant to stand trial for the double murders at sea. Skylar Deleon, 29, the plotter who recruited Kennedy at the last minute to help subdue Thomas Hawks aboard the boat, was convicted on Nov. 6, 2008 (see) and is awaiting a sentence of death on March 20. Jennifer Henderson, Deleon's former wife, was convicted in 2006 for her role in putting the Hawkses at ease so they would agree to go on a cruise with her husband and Kennedy. She has been sentenced to life without parole.