Pizza Deliveryman’s Slayer Sentenced to Die

A former Domino’s Pizza manager convicted of murdering a pizza deliveryman in Glendale in December, 1985, allegedly in retaliation for a grievance against the company, was sentenced Friday to the death penalty.

Pasadena Superior Court Judge Jack Tso said he could find no reason to reduce a jury’s June 23 recommendation that Mitchell Carleton Sims, 27, go to the gas chamber. “The defendant is extremely dangerous and especially vicious,” Tso said.

Sims also faces extradition to South Carolina for two trials in the killing of two other Domino’s employees. The prosecution alleged that he held a grudge against Domino’s since he quit his job in March, 1985, over a dispute with his supervisors in a South Carolina outlet.