Paedophile gets death sentence for raping and burying girl alive
A convicted sex offender was sentenced to death today for kidnapping and raping a nine-year-old girl before swaddling her in garbage bags and burying her alive in his Florida yard – crimes that led many states to enact new laws cracking down on convicted sex offenders.
John Evander Couey looked ahead when Circuit Judge Ric Howard told him he should be executed for the 2005 kidnapping, rape and death Jessica Lunsford.
