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Joseph McAlpin.
You just know that that councilman wanted to say “lynched” instead of “burned at the stake.”
You just know it.
A judge on Tuesday imposed the death penalty on a 32-year-old man convicted of the execution-style murders of a couple during a break-in attempt at their family-owned car lot.
Joseph McAlpin will pay the law’s ultimate penalty in the 2017 shooting deaths of Michael Kuznik and Trina Tomola inside Mr. Cars on East 185th Street.
Common Pleas Court Judge Brian J. Corrigan, who presided over the three-week trial, condemned McAlpin to death row after the jury on Thursday recommended the death penalty in the trial’s second phase.
McAlpin, who is believed to be the first defendant to represent himself in a death-penalty trial in Cuyahoga County’s history, thanked Corrigan and the team of county prosecutors for their patience with him during the trial. He also apologized to his own family for what he called “ignorant” declarations during trial that he would only accept full liberty or death.
McAlpin offered no words to the family of Kuznik and Tomola, who packed the courtroom’s gallery but chose not to address the court.
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Cleveland City Councilman Michael Polensek, whose ward encompassed the Collinwood neighborhood where the car lot sat for 40 years, called McAlpin a “demonic killer” who rocked the entire neighborhood and the business community across Cleveland.
“This was never about retribution,” Polensek said. “This was about justice.”
After the hearing, Polensek told reporters that he felt death by lethal injection was “too good” for McAlpin.
“As far as I’m concerned he should be burned at the stake for what he did to that family,” Polensek said.
Michael Kuznik and Trina Tomola.
