Manling Williams' Deadly Sins: She killed her kids, then slashed her husband 97 times with a sword!

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She said she hoped the appeals process, which begins automatically when a convict is sentenced to death in California, will not require her to continue attending court hearings regularly. In 2001, Manling and Neal married at a courthouse. Later, they had a big wedding at a Taiwanese church. The couple moved to Rowland Heights, and their second son, Ian, was born in fall 2003. They died at the hands of this woman," Kouch said, pointing to Manling Williams. "Because of this woman, Neal, Devon and Ian are no longer here." The injuries to Neal were far beyond what she imagined, despite knowing he was stabbed and cut with a Samurai sword 92 times. pillow and held it over her 3-year-old son’s mouth and nose until he lost consciousness,” described prosecutors. She “then climbed the bunk bed stairs to her oldest son’s bed and put the pillow over his nose and mouth” and ended the 7-year-old’s life.

Testimony indicated it takes five to 10 minutes for a person to die by suffocation, meaning that Manling Williams had at least five minutes to contemplate her actions while killing one of her children before killing her other son in the same manner, Martinez said.

In the end, all those families have left are memories, Okun-Wiese said, as she showed recent photos of Neal and his children. There’s no basis for the prosecution’s contention that these murders were planned,” Althaus said, adding that Manling Williams was in a state of “extreme mental and emotional disturbance” when she killed her husband and sons.

While being interviewed by detectives after the discovery of the bodies, “For hours, she feigned grief, sadness and bewilderment,” Martinez said. Without answers, one’s imagination can build upon the nightmare, she said. Going to the trial could give her some peace, if not now, later in life. A jury convicted Manling Williams of three counts of first-degree murder in 2010, along with the special allegations of using weapons and lying in wait. After one jury was unable to agree on whether to sentence her to death or life imprisonment, a second penalty phase jury recommended last year that she be put to death.

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She didn’t know the extent of her son’s injuries, the timeline of her son’s and grandchildren’s death, or the motive behind their murder.