Arsonist gets death penalty in fatal Old fire
Jurors order Rickie Lee Fowler to be executed in the 2003 wildfire, but the judge notes that Prop. 34 to abolish the death penalty could alter sentence.
A San Bernardino County jury on Friday ordered a death sentence for the violent methamphetamine addict convicted of setting the catastrophic 2003 Old fire that destroyed 1,000 homes, blackened the San Bernardino Mountains and led to five deaths.