A Fairfax County jury imposed the death penalty Wednesday on Mark Lawlor for killing a woman in her Falls Church apartment.
Lawlor, 45, had been convicted of capital murder for bludgeoning 29-year-old Genevieve Orange, who went by “Gini,” to death in September 2008.
A judge will formally sentence Lawlor on June 9. He could accept the jury’s sentence or reduce it to life in prison without parole.
The case is the second recent death penalty verdict in Fairfax.
In November, Alfredo Prieto was sentenced to death by a jury, and a judge imposed that sentence.
No one had received the death penalty in Fairfax in the 12 years before that case.
Emily Babay
