Should Killers With a Violence Gene Get Lighter Sentences?
Anthony Blas Yepez killed a man. Is his DNA to blame?
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6 min readJan 22, 2019
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In 2015, Anthony Blas Yepez was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison after killing George Ortiz, his girlfriend’s step-grandfather.
Three years prior, Yepez and his girlfriend were living with Ortiz when, according to testimony, Ortiz hit Yepez’s…