STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) -- A prosecutor characterized the deaths of three women as "joy killing" as he ended closing arguments in the murder trial of a convicted rapist.Fifty-four-year-old William Jennings Choyce of Stockton faces the death penalty if convicted in San Joaquin County Superior Court of the three killings dating back to 1988.The prosecutor said the women were shot, then left in sexual poses in secluded areas. The women, two from Stockton and one from Oakland, were prostitutes. Closing arguments in Choyce's trial were held Thursday.Choyce was serving time in state prison for the rape of two Oakland women when DNA evidence connected him to the murders.
Stockton "Joy Killing" Trial Wraps
A Stockton prosecutor characterized the deaths of three women as "joy killing" as he ended closing arguments in the murder trial of convicted rapist William Jennings Choyce.
