Jury wanted death, but judge choses life in prison for ‘mastermind’ convicted killer

In a complicated love triangle story that ended with murder, a Miami-Dade judge sentenced a man, convicted of ordering his girlfriend’s new partner to be killed, to life in prison, despite a jury’s death recommendation.

Last June, eight out of 12 jurors recommended a death sentence instead of life in prison for Ysrael Granda, who was convicted of first-degree murder in connection to the death of 42-year-old Jose Soto in Miami Lakes in 2012.

Granda, from his jail cell, ordered his girlfriend’s new boyfriend, Soto, to be killed. Granda did not pull the trigger and as of today, no one has been convicted for the actual murder…

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