California Supreme Court upholds death sentence of infamous serial killer Charles Ng

The California Supreme Court has given the greenlight for the state's death sentence of Charles Ng, one of the country's most notorious serial killers who carried out brutal crimes in a secret bunker in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. 

The court in a ruling last week "affirm[ed] the [death penalty] judgment in its entirety" as rendered by a jury in 1999. Ng carried the murders out in the 1980s.

Ng was convicted in 1999 of multiple brutal murders carried out in a secret underground bunker in the California mountains. Ng and his accomplice Leonard Lake—who committed suicide after being arrested in 1985—would reportedly ambush families, kill the fathers and children, and enslave the mothers as sex slaves and torture victims before killing them. 

Charged with 12 homicides, Ng was convicted of 11 of them, specifically those of six men, three women and two infants.

A date for Ng's execution has apparently not been set. No executions have been carried out in California since 2006, while Gov. Gavin Newsom has placed a moratorium on capital punishment there.