🇬🇭Bob Saginowski🇬🇭

Steven Lorenzo begged a judge for the death penalty, saying it would be more comfortable than life in prison. The judge’s answer came in Italian, borrowed from the mother of one of his victims. To Lorenzo, death row was a scheduling problem. He saw it as “euthanasia,” a shortcut past 15 years of waiting, and a faster way back into “a fresh body.” There was no remorse in the request, only impatience. Everybody dies, in his view, so the state might as well hurry up. The sentence he got had nothing to do with what he wanted. It belonged to 2 mothers who had waited 20 years. In December 2003, Lorenzo and his accomplice, Scott Schweickert, met 2 young men at a Tampa nightclub on back-to-back nights. Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz were both 26. Both were drugged and lured to Lorenzo’s home in Seminole Heights, and both were murdered there. Jason’s remains were never found. Michael was discovered 2 weeks later in the back of his own Jeep. By then, Lorenzo was already headed for about 200 years in federal prison for drugging and assaulting men. Schweickert pleaded guilty, took life and testified against him. Lorenzo dragged the murder case out for nearly 2 decades, and the families sat through every delay until he finally pleaded guilty in 2022. In February 2023, Judge Christopher Sabella made it clear Lorenzo’s wishes played no part. The final words were Jason’s mother’s, spoken through the judge: “From one Italian to another, ti condanno a morte.” I sentence you to death. He asked for death as a favor, and the court handed it to him as a punishment. Remember their names, not his: Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz.

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