The convicted killer who shot to death an Ocean Beach liquor store clerk and a University City mortgage broker was ordered Monday to Death Row by a judge who followed the jury’s recommendation of the death penalty. San Diego Superior Court Judge Michael Wellington signed a death order for Tecumseh Colbert, 25, during a sentencing for the 2004 slayings of Richard Hammes, 45, and Robert McCamey, 32. Wellington reminded the court that death penalty cases are given an automatic appeal before the California Supreme Court. “It is the judgment and sentence of this court that Tecumseh Colbert shall be put to death,” Wellington said during his ruling. Hammes was a homeless man who was filling in as a clerk at the Prime Market Liquor store at 4161 Voltaire St. when he was confronted by Colbert, who was wearing a Halloween mask, on Nov. 10, 2004. Hammes didn’t give Colbert any money and instead walked toward Colbert before being shot in the chest. The store’s security camera recorded the sound of the shot but not the actual shooting itself. Colbert walked backward out of the store after shooting Hammes and fled. Colbert is from the North Bay Terraces area. McCamey, of University City, was shot to death on Oct. 29, 2004. His brother, LaBron McCamey, traveled from Alabama to attend the sentencing. “I ask the court that whatever is done with this young man here that he never gets the opportunity to do this to anyone else,” said LaBron tearfully. “Mr. Colbert, find God in your life … because as of right now, that’s all you got left,” LaBron told Colbert in court. Colbert blamed the “broken” juvenile justice system for helping him become a criminal. “I was just stuck in a world of my own and I was mentally dead,” said Colbert, who was dressed in a green jail uniform. The judge fined Colbert $10,000 and ordered him to pay $7,483 in restitution to the McCamey family. A jury in 2007 convicted Colbert of two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy and found special circumstances that Colbert committed multiple murders during robberies. That same jury deadlocked over his penalty but a second jury recommended on July 7 that Colbert be executed. A co-defendant, Theron Lee Peters, now 42, of Point Loma, pleaded guilty to both murders, carjacking and robbery in April 2007 and drew two life sentences without the possibility of parole. There are more than 600 men on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison. It takes about 17 years for a death sentence to be carried out because of the appeals process in both state and federal courts. There have only been about 12 executions since 1992. Current executions have been halted by the state Supreme Court over questions about whether lethal injections are cruel or painful.