SelectPlusConvicted Killer Gets Death Penalty in Va.Convicted Killer Gets Death Penalty in Va.The Associated PressA jail escapee who set off a manhunt near Virginia Tech's campus by killing a hospital guard and later, a sheriff's deputy, was sentenced to death Monday despite his attorney's pleas for leniency. (June 24)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] [Notes:morva in courtroom]Convicted killer William Morva has been sentenced to death. [Notes:file of va tech lockdown] A Virginia judge imposed the jury's recommended sentence for the jail escapee who killed a hospital guard and a sheriff's deputy setting off a lockdown at Virginia Tech University months before the deadly campus shooting that happened there. [Notes:courtroom various]At Morva's sentencing on Monday, Defense attorney Thomas Blaylock pleaded for mercy, then Morva made a statement.SOT: Morva: My attorneys, they just did a good job of trying to ask you for mercy, but I don't ask for that. Because to...