Duncan returns to federal death row
A man who tortured and killed two boys in California and Idaho has been returned to death row in federal prison.
Federal prison officials say 48-year-old Joseph Edward Duncan III -- who spent more than two years in a Riverside County jail -- arrived at a federal prison in Indiana Wednesday.
Duncan was sentenced Tuesday for killing Anthony Martinez, who was kidnapped in 1997 as he played near his Beaumont home. Duncan confessed to the crime after his arrest in Idaho.
He was convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing and killing a Coeur d'Alene boy, Dylan Groene, in 2005 and beating to death the boy's older brother, mother and her fiance with a hammer.
He will await execution in Terre Haute, where the nation's federal death row inmates are held.