The Supreme Court of California upheld the death penalty for Charles Ng, a Hong Kong man who was sentenced to death for killing 11 people in Calaveras County, California, in the 1980's.
Leonard Lake died after swallowing a cyanide capsule after he was arrested. Lake's cabin is located near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and is where the duo carried out their crimes.
The victims of the pair were at least two families, one of which had an infant son. The relatives who came to the cabin were killed as well.
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The scheme came to an end after Ng was caught stealing a vise from a hardware store. Lake presented the ID of Scott Stapely, who had been reported missing weeks before, to the police when they asked for his identification.
An illegal silencer was found in his car. He was taken to a police station, where he took a lot of pills.
The consequences of their crimes were left to Lake. He fled to Canada after shooting the store's security guard in San Francisco, but was arrested again for stealing and again for shooting the store's security guard.
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He was extradited to California in 1991 after being charged with assault, theft and possession of a concealed firearm in Canada. His trial didn't start until October 1998 because his lawyers were fired for incompetence.
The right to self- representation was revoked in 1998. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 1999 for the murders of six men, three women and two male babies.
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California has not carried out executions since 2006 while a moratorium is in place in 2019. If he succeeds in other federal appeals, he may be able to escape death row.
The California Supreme Court found that a fair trial was given to Ng. He was found guilty and sentenced to death.
During his trial, he claimed that he acted only on Lake's instructions because he wanted to make him proud. He said that he was beaten by his father as a child, which may have influenced his decisions later in life.
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The jury wasn't sure. Videos and accounts from Lake journals show that he was just as guilty as the victims.
You can cry, but it won't do anything. "We are pretty cold-hearted, so to speak."
In 1991, a former cellmate recalled how he bragged about killing people. The prisoner said that he killed a gay man by burning him alive.
He can kill without thinking about it. The prisoner told Inside Edition that the man could kill him. He has no sense of right and wrong. He could either kill someone or watch a movie.
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