USA - California. A jury sentenced Joseph Michael Nissensohn, 62, White, to death

An El Dorado County jury sentenced Joseph Michael Nissensohn, 62, White, to death. Nissensohn was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder for the 1989 killing of 15-year-old Kathy Graves, as well as the 1981 slayings of 13-year-old Tammy Jarschke and 14-year-old Tanya Jones. He had served 15 years in prison for a murder in Washington state and was nearing release in 2008 when prosecutors in Monterey and El Dorado counties combined their cases and filed charges in the deaths of the teenagers. Nissensohn is scheduled to be formally sentenced March 18.