Man convicted in Jewish site killings is sentenced to death

(AP) — A judge followed a jury's recommendation and sentenced an avowed anti-Semite to death Tuesday for the fatal shootings of three people at Kansas Jewish sites.

Johnson County District Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan imposed the sentence for Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., who was convicted of one count of capital murder, three counts of attempted murder, and assault and weapons charges for the April 2014 shootings in suburban Kansas City.

Few eyes in the crowded courtroom stayed dry as he described watching his grandmother "try to exist with a broken heart."

[...] victim statements, Mindy Corporon played a cellphone recording of her son Reat singing the national anthem as nearly everyone in the courtroom stood in a show of respect.

After the victim statements, though, he became defiant and spent nearly an hour talking about how Jewish people were running the government, media and Federal Reserve.

Five of the state's current death row inmates had their sentences overturned by the Kansas Supreme Court, but the cases have since been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court or sent to lower courts for resentencing.

On Friday, the court upheld a death sentence for the first time, in the case of a convicted serial killer who investigators said lured some victims with promises of work or sex and stuffed some of their bodies in barrels on his rural property.