[PHOTOS] Man murders two friends to fund his wedding

A debt - ridden actor who killed two of his friends and dismembered one of them as part of a plot to steal money to pay for his wedding and honeymoon has been sentenced to death . Daniel Patrick Wozniak , 32 , will be put on death for the slaying of Afghanistan war veteran Samuel Herr and Julie Kibuishi in Southern California in 2010 .

Orange County Superior Court Judge John Conley followed the recommendation of a jury he should be executed following the grisly deaths and his attempted cover - up . Jurors had convicted Wozniak of the murders in December . A month later , a jury told prosecutors he should face capital punishment .

“ At the cost of two human lives, the defendant chose not to get married inexpensively or to

defer his honeymoon , ” Conley said. “ He wanted to do it in style, and he was willing to kill two people he knew to accomplish this. ”

Wozniak was debt - ridden in 2010 when he shot a neighbor, Herr of Costa Mesa, to steal $ 50 , 000 the Army veteran had saved from service in Afghanistan , prosecutors said .