(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 6, 2019 Michael Gargiulo, 43, also known as the Hollywood Ripper, listens during closing statements in his capital murder trial in Los Angeles Superior Court. - A man known as the "Hollywood Ripper" was sentenced to death on July 16, 2021 for the gruesome killings of two women in their homes in the early 2000s. Michael Gargiulo, 45, was convicted in 2019 of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. (Photo by Lucy Nicholson / POOL / AFP)