Darien Killer Says He Would Have Accepted Execution

The man who has confessed to shooting and killing three members of a Darien family in March 2010 continued his testimony on Tuesday against the man he says put him up to the crime, Johnny Borizov, 32, of Willow Springs, saying that after the crime he would have accepted either execution or a mental hospital as an alternative to prison, the Daily Herald reports.

"I would have taken the needle immediately if they had offered it to me," the paper quoted Jacob Nodarse, the 26-year-old admitted murderer of Jeffrey, Lori and Mike Kramer saying on the stand Tuesday, adding under cross-examination that he was “disappointed” to be found sane: "I'd rather be in a hospital than a prison. I think anyone would be."

Although the death penalty still existed in Illinois in 2010, prosecutors and the surviving Kramer family decided not to pursue it for either Borizov or Nodarse.

In his first two days of testimony, Nodarse first clearly accused Borizov of planning the murder and said the older man told him his own life was at stake, then said he thought that the killings were a dream while he was committing them, only registering the reality later while fleeing the scene.

The trial, the first ever in DuPage to allow cameras, continues throughout the rest of the week.

Read the full story at the Daily Herald website.

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