Sentenced to death for the forest fire in the USA

Sentenced to death for the forest fire in the USA

An American 31-year-old is sentenced to death after being found guilty of causing a forest fire that cost human lives.

Rickie Lee Fowler was in August found guilty of having caused the fire in San Bernardino County in Southern California in 2003, having thrown a flares out in some bushes.

Five people died of heart attacks in connection with the fire, which destroyed more than 1,000 homes.

A few months later another 14 people were killed in a landslide, which apparently was triggered because the vegetation was destroyed by the fire.

The prosecutor in the case described Fowler as a sadistic drug addict and accused him of setting fire to forest fire in retaliation against the godfather who had thrown him out of his house in the vicinity.

Fowler denied throwing flares that triggered the fire and claimed that there was another man who did this. The person was shot and killed in 2006.

The jury in the case, however, found Fowler guilty and a judge ruled Monday in Los Angeles death sentence against him.