Manling Williams' Deadly Sins: She killed her kids, then slashed her husband 97 times with a sword!

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After years of hearings in which the judge remained intentionally stoic, “It was rather chilling to have the judge pronounce his opinion so frankly,” Jan Williams said. She told authorities that on Aug. 7, 2007, she had come home from grocery shopping about 7:30 a.m. when she discovered her family dead. She felt like a cold-hearted bitch because she committed three cold blooded murders," Deputy District Attorney Stacy Okun-Wiese said to start her argument, referencing what Williams told deputies in a taped confession.

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Separate juries concluded in January 2015 that Magana, a mother from Corona, and her boyfriend Naresh Marine deserved the death penalty for the May 2009 murder of her toddler son Malachi who was scalded and subjected to beatings before he died five days later. [30] That was the central theme during closing arguments of the second death penalty phase of Manling Tsang Williams' trial on Tuesday at the Pomona Superior Courthouse. These things are family secrets that people don’t say in court.” She also testified that her sister had changed in the months prior to Neal, Devon and Ian’s murder. She would call in the middle of the night just to talk. Jan walked out of the small courtroom last Tuesday morning, her face somber, blue eyes dull. She had heard of the prosecutors’ plans earlier but hoped they might change their mind. They didn’t. They said they believed the crimes merited the death penalty.

Prior to the killings, Manling Williams was "a kind, generous, troubled woman who loved her husband and children," he said. Both families involved in this case have asked the prosecution not to pursue a second penalty phase," Tsang said. In Monday's story, reporter Corina Knoll follows Jan Williams and chronicles the devastation she's experienced following the killings and the toll the court room hours has taken on her life. Takasugi said punishments are nuanced and can't be determined based solely on the crime, but a person's life and character outside the crime are factors as well.pillow and held it over her 3-year-old son’s mouth and nose until he lost consciousness,” described prosecutors. She “then climbed the bunk bed stairs to her oldest son’s bed and put the pillow over his nose and mouth” and ended the 7-year-old’s life. POMONA – A Lompoc man testified in the Pomona Courthouse on Monday that he had a brief affair with a Rowland Heights woman a month before she killed her husband and two young sons. Williams faces the death penalty after she was convicted on Nov. 4 of slashing to death her husband, Neal, and smothering her two sons, Devon, 7, and Ian, 3, with a pillow in their Rowland Heights home on Aug. 7, 2007. POMONA - Attorneys asked a jury Wednesday to decide whether a woman killed her husband and children in a fit of rage or if she coldly and methodically murdered them in an attempt to free herself from family life. The difference determines whether jurors choose second-degree murder or first degree murder - life in prison or the potential for the death penalty.