A Seattle man who'd admitted to raping two women at Myrtle Edwards Park was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday.
Earlier this year, Angel Galvan-Hernandez pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree rape in the separate August 2007 attacks at the waterfront park.
In both attacks, Galvan-Hernandez, 26, was accused of beating and choking his victims as he forced himself on them.
Speaking in King County Superior Court, Galvan-Hernandez pleaded with Judge Julie Spector to have him executed rather than send him to prison.
In a turn characterized by Spector, without humour, as "ironic," Galvan-Hernandez begged not to be sent to prison where he believes he will be raped."I prefer death a thousand times over being raped," said Galvan-Hernandez.
A tiny man less than 5 feet in height, Galvan-Hernandez told the court he'd been sexually assaulted numerous times as a street youth in Mexico. "I want to pay for the act of cowardice," he added. "I admit it, but I just don't want to be raped."
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