Washington Executes Man Who Killed 3
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. — A man who had talked repeatedly of how he enjoyed killing a young boy and two women became the first person in Washington state to be executed by lethal injection.
Jeremy Sagastegui, 27, said nothing early Tuesday as he lay strapped to a gurney in the execution chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary.
On Nov. 19, 1995, Sagastegui beat, raped, stabbed and drowned Keivan Sarbacher, whom he was baby-sitting at a friend’s home in south-central Washington. Sagastegui then shot and killed Keivan’s mother, Melissa Sarbacher, 21, and her friend Lisa Vera-Acevado, 26, when they arrived home.
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