Former Mighty Morphin Power Ranger actor, Skylar Deleon has been given the death penalty by lethal injection for his role in the murder of three people, including a couple who were tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht off the California coast. Orange County Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel told the jury that the horror of the crime outweighed defense contentions that Deleon was abused as a child before they handed down the sentence. According to The Associated Press:
Deleon’s victims were an Arizona couple – Tom Hawks, 57, and wife Jackie, 47 – who were last seen in November 2004, after setting sail aboard their 55-foot yacht with Deleon, who they believed to be a potential buyer for their boat
Prosecutors argued Deleon, and two other men, took a test cruise with the couple posing as interested buyers, forced them to sign over ownership of the yacht and then tied their bodies to the boat’s anchor and threw their bodies overboard. The bodies of Tom and Jackie Hawks were never recovered.
In addition, Deleon was also found guilty of murdering Anaheim resident Jon Jarvi in 2003, who Deleon met while in a work furlough program while serving jail time for burglary, according to prosecutors.
Anyone who ever appeared on the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger deserves the death penalty. Nonetheless, this dude deserves what he’s getting.
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He looks like Joey from Friends…
Um, according to IMDB, the guy appeared in a grand total of one episode. Considering that there have been 675 episodes since 1993 (according to Wikipedia), calling him a “Power Ranger Actor” seems a bit exaggerated to say the least.
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