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FILE - In this July 5, 2017 file photo, Judge Thomas M. Goethals listens to the testimony of Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens during an evidentiary hearing for convicted murderer Scott Dekraai at the Santa Ana Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, Calif. Goethals is weighing whether Dekraai should be spared the death penalty due to a long-running scandal over authorities' use of jailhouse informants. Goethals is expected to rule Friday, Aug. 18 on whether Dekraai should remain eligible for the death penalty or sentenced to life without parole for killing eight people in a 2011 shooting rampage at an Orange County hair salon. (Nick Agro /The Orange County Register via AP, File)

California mass killer spared death sentence

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

Scott Dekraai sits with his public defender Scott Sanders in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif., on Friday, May 2, 2014. Dekraai, 44, who was in a custody fight with his ex-wife pleaded guilty Friday to killing her and seven others in a shooting rampage at a California hair salon in 2011. Dekraai donned a bulletproof vest before heading to the Seal Beach salon where his ex-wife worked as a stylist in October 2011. Authorities said he shot and killed Michelle Fournier before turning his gun on the salon's owner and spraying Salon Meritage with bullets. The salon reopened about a year later, with six of the original employees returning to work. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Kevin Sullivan) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT

Man pleads guilty in California salon killings

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press