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Michael Madison was sentenced to death for killing three young women. As a father of one of the slain women was speaking, Madison was mocking him. Eventually, the grieving father couldn't take it anymore. WKYC
A court officer tackles the father of one of three victims of Ohio serial killer Michael Madison, left, who leaped over a table to attack the defendant in court just minutes after the judge pronounced a death sentence in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on June 2, 2016, in Cleveland.(Photo: David Richard, AP)
Only minutes after<span style="color: Red;">*</span>serial killer Michael Madison was sentenced to death in a Cleveland courtroom, the father of one of his three victims lunged across a table and tried to grab the smirking defendant while<span style="color: Red;">*</span>deputies jumped in and pulled him off.
The father, Van Terry, whose 18-year-old daughter, Shirellda, was killed in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>2013,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was speaking at a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>podium at the front of the courtroom at the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sentencing hearing Thursday, saying, "I guess we are supposed to find it in our hearts to forgive this clown .... who's touched our families...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>taken my child," WKYC-TV<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
reports.
As he turned toward the killer, Madison grinned. Terry responded by leaping<span style="color: Red;">*</span>across the table, grabbing at Madison's face,
the Cleveland Plain Dealer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports. Madison<span style="color: Red;">*</span>maintained a smirk throughout much of the ordeal.
Terry's sister, Sonya Richardson, said afterward that the father was distraught over the death of his daughter.
"The family is there pouring out their hearts ...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and he's sitting there smiling ...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>which caused my brother to launch at him," Richardson said.
"It was horrible ...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to be that close ...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to have to breathe his air ...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to be in the same room with a person who is so horrible ...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and he don't care ...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he was laughing when she gave him the death penalty," Richardson added.
The sex offender was convicted last month on charges<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of killing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Terry and two other women, Angela Deskins, 38, and Shetisha Sheeley, 28, and stuffing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>their bodies into trash bags near his apartment in East Cleveland.
In announcing a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sentence of death by lethal injection, Judge Nancy McDonnell said it was incomprehensible that a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>person could commit crimes<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of such "sheer inhumanity."
People who commit the kind of crimes that you have committed must be punished, and must be punished as severely as the law allows," she said, looking at Madison. "It is absolutely necessary."
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