SEATTLE, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The Seattle area prosecutor said Thursday that death is the appropriate penalty for a couple charged with killing the woman's family on Christmas Eve.
Michele Anderson, since her arrest, has asked for execution, telling one friend in a letter that she wants to take responsibility for her actions, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported. She fired her original public defenders because they refused to allow her to plead guilty with no conditions.
Anderson and Joseph McEnroe are charged with six counts of aggravated murder. That is the only crime where the sentence can be execution under current state law.
The couple allegedly killed her parents at their home in Carnation and then shot her brother, his wife and their two children when they arrived for a Christmas Eve get-together.
"Given the magnitude of these alleged crimes, the slaying of three generations of a family, and particularly the slaying of two young children, I find that there are not sufficient reasons to keep the death penalty from being considered by the juries that will ultimately hear these matters," King County District Attorney Dan Satterberg said in a statement.
