For what crime did a California judge on Monday issue a death sentence?

Following a jury’s recommendation, a judge ruled Monday that Rickie Lee Fowler, 31, should be executed for starting a massive wildfire in 2003 that caused five fatal heart attacks. Fowler was convicted in August of tossing a road flare into brush above San Bernardino. The fire burned for nine days across 142 square miles in the mountains east of Los Angeles. Fowler was charged in 2009 with murder and arson while serving time for a burglary conviction. Before he came to trial, he was convicted of raping a cellmate and sentenced to three terms of 25 years to life.