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Parents of murder victim say Adams deserves to die
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Avalon, left, and Lucian Tenney, parents of slain YSU student Gina Tenney, talk about verdict of Bennie Adams shortly after verdict on Wednesday.
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Bennie Adams sentenced to death for the 1985 murder of Gina Tenney.
YOUNGSTOWN — Judge Timothy E. Franken should impose the death penalty on Bennie Adams, according to the parents of the young woman Adams was convicted of murdering almost 23 years ago.
“He took a life, and I think anyone that takes a life should be ready to pay for it with their own. That’s not asking too much,” said Avalon Tenney of Ashtabula, mother of Gina Tenney, who died by strangulation on Dec. 29, 1985.
“We’re grateful to anyone involved in helping to put Bennie Adams where he belongs. I hope he can never do that to anybody else,” she said.
“He deserves it,” said Lucian Tenney, father of the murder victim, citing “the torture that Gina went through....It’s hard to think that somebody could do that and not give their own life,” he added.
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