Father who killed his four children must look at family photo every day until he's executed

A father who threw his four children to their deaths from a bridge has been ordered to look at a photo of his family until he dies.

Lam Luong was sentenced to death for the murders of his children by tossing them from an 80ft high bridge on the Alabama coast.

But Judge Charles Graddick also said Luong, 38, must look at a photo of his children every day while he waits on death row to be executed.



He rejected defence lawyers plea at the court in Mobile, Alabama, to show mercy to jobless Luong and instead spoke of the 'sheer terror' the children must have felt before they died.

The judge said the children were still alive when they hit the water despite the 80ft plunge.

Garrick surprised the court when said he would make it part of the sentence that prison officials had to hold up a photo of the children, aged from four months to two years, as a reminder of what he had done.