{"id":5562,"date":"2017-02-04T08:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2017-02-05T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T12:02:47","slug":"victims-family-members-tell-sampson-rot-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/02\/04\/victims-family-members-tell-sampson-rot-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims\u2019 family members tell Sampson to \u2018rot in hell\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE from\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/02\/gary-sampson-sentencing-retrial-begins-death-penalty-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/02\/gary-sampson-sentencing-retrial-begins-death-penalty-possible\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two families united by the brutal murders of their loved ones watched killer Gary Lee Sampson stand in court and get sentenced to death again.<\/p>\n<p>During his weeklong July 2001 murder spree Sampson killed Philip McCloskey, a retiree who picked up the hitchhiking killer. Sampson then killed Jonathan Rizzo, a teenager who also picked up Sampson on the roadside. He also killed Robert Whitney, 58, a New Hampshire man.<\/p>\n<p>Sampson said nothing when asked to speak, but had an outburst earlier in which he shouted \u201c(expletive) you\u201d at the prosecutor, and when told to be quiet by the judge, shouted \u201c(expletive) you too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the burned-out old con, now bald and fat, slumped in his chair and listened as loved ones of those he killed explained what he took away.<\/p>\n<p>McCloskey\u2019s son Scott called the serial killer a coward who stole his father\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay you rot in hell, you son of a bitch,\u201d he shouted.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Rizzo, Jonathan\u2019s mother, recalled, \u201cJuly 2, 1982, Jon was born and they laid him on my chest and I felt his heart beat and wondered how it was possible to love someone so much in so little time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate that you are the last person to see him. You killed and tortured Jon. I will never forgive you for this and I don\u2019t believe God will,\u201d she told the court. \u201cI hate you. I never thought I could hate anyone, but I hate you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sampson\u2019s first death verdict was overturned in 2011 and he was granted a second death-penalty trial which ended in January when the jury again returned a verdict of death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_coverage\/2017\/02\/victims_family_members_tell_sampson_to_rot_in_hell?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">bostonherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">UPDATE from\u00a0 http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/02\/gary-sampson-sentencing-retrial-begins-death-penalty-possible\/ Two families united by the brutal murders of their loved ones watched killer Gary Lee Sampson stand in court and get sentenced to death again. During his weeklong July 2001 murder spree <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/02\/04\/victims-family-members-tell-sampson-rot-hell\/\" title=\"Victims\u2019 family members tell Sampson to \u2018rot in hell\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1418,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-5562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-gary-sampson","10":"tag-murder","11":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}