Jury throws book at Napa hitman who killed CHP captain lover’s husband — despite his kids’ pleas

Source: New York Post

A Kentucky jury came down hard on a Napa Valley man hired by a former California Highway Patrol captain to kill her husband in a twisted murder-for-hire plot – even after the killer’s distraught children begged for mercy. Cumberland County jurors on Monday recommended the most severe penalty they could, life in prison, for Thomas O’Donnell, in the killing of Michael Harding, the estranged husband of CHP captain Julie Harding. 8 O’Donnell faces life in prison.