MAN SENTENCED TO DIE FOR MURDERS BLAMED ON ALIENS

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Title:MAN SENTENCED TO DIE FOR MURDERS BLAMED ON ALIENS
Source:Reuter
Date:April 01, 1996


TUCSON, Ariz (Reuter) - An Arizona man who claimed that space aliens

forced him to murder two women was sentenced Friday to die for his crimes.

Robert Joe Moody had asked to be executed, saying that extraterrestrial

beings would then resurrect him to prove their existence.

In winning a conviction in the bizarre case last October, prosecutors

scoffed at Moody's claims of alien influence and contended that he killed the

two Tucson women to get money to support his drug habit.

Moody knew both of his victims. Michelle Malone, 33, was shot to death on

November 15, 1993. Five days later, Patricia Magda, 55, was fatally

bludgeoned.

``We have finally come to the point where I get my birthday wish,''

Moody, who turned 37 Friday, told Superior Court Judge Howard Hantman before

his sentencing. ``I hope you grant the appropriate sentence to allow me to

complete my mission.''

Courtroom observers said the unrepentant Moody seemed pleased when the

judge sentenced him to receive the death penalty. The victims' families

packed the courtroom for Friday's hearing.

At a hearing last week, a defense psychologist testified that Moody --

who represented himself during his three-week trial -- suffered from multiple

personality disorder.

But the prosecution presented experts who said he was mentally competent

at the time of the murders.