Indian in US gets death for twin murder

NEW YORK: A 28-year-old Indian has been sentenced to death in the US for killing an Indian baby and her grandmother in a 2012 kidnapping plot that went wrong after a trial during which the accused said he would rather accept the death penalty than sit through arguments.
Raghunandan Yandamuri was convicted by a Montgomery County Court jury of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Satyavathi Venna, 61, and the suffocation death of her 10-month-old granddaughter, Saanvi Venna, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
The jury could have chosen to sentence Yandamuri to life in prison but in making their decision they considered elements of his crimes and mitigating factors such as testimony regarding his gambling addiction and mental state.