Jury recommends death penalty for man who tortured, murdered 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez
(World News USA)

A jury recommended Wednesday that a Palmdale man be sentenced to death for the torture-murder of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, who was repeatedly shot with a BB gun, beaten and forced to sleep in a small cabinet with his hands and feet bound and his mouth gagged. The seven-woman, five-man jury deliberated for about seven hours over three days before recommending that Isauro Aguirre, 37, be put to death for the May 2013 killing of Gabriel Fernandez. The boy’s mother, Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, 34, is awaiting trial and also faces a possible death sentence. Sentencing for Aguirre, a former security guard, was set for March 8. The jury’s recommendation came shortly after the...