Death Sentence Recommended for White Supremacist Gang Member

On October 29, 2009, a jury in Orange County Superior Court recommended the death sentence for Billy Joe Johnson for the first-degree murder of fellow Public Enemy Number One (PEN1) gang member Scott Miller in 2002.

On September 14, 2009, the jury found Johnson, 46, guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder, the latter with the enhancements of murder by lying in wait and murder for the benefit of the gang, for the 2002 ambush slaying of a fellow PEN1 member.

Johnson is already serving 45 years to life in prison for beating a man to death with a hammer in Huntington Beach in 2004.