Killer’s Death Sentence Upheld
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SAN FRANCISCO — The state Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence of a Modesto man for the 1982 ambush killing and robbery of a fisherman near a campground in Tuolumne County.
The court voted 6 to 1 to affirm the sentence of Keith Adcox, 27, for the crimes that netted him and two friends $30 in cash and the victim’s car, which they later pushed into a canal. Dissenting Justice Stanley Mosk said the sentence should be reduced to life in prison because neither of the accomplices was sentenced to death.
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