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Posted on 04/05/2024 2:25:21 AM PDT by Morgana
An infamous child killer who broke into a slumber party in 1993 and blindfolded three girls before abducting and murdering one of them could have his death sentence reversed.
Career criminal Richard Allen Davis, 69, was sentenced to death over the shocking murder of Polly Klaas in Petaluma, California.
The little girl's abduction from her own home during a slumber party she was hosting, at the place where she should have felt safest triggered international shock and revulsion
Davis strangled Klaas to death just hours after the horrifying abduction. He eventually confessed to the murder and was sentenced to death in 1996.
The killer had a long criminal past and had been released from prison for kidnapping a woman just months before the murder. The outcry over his long rap sheet led to California toughening up its sentencing laws for repeat offenders.
However, since then, a swelling prison population has meant the state has moved to eliminate sentencing enhancements for prior convictions, which Davis is now arguing should apply to his punishment. He is demanding a new sentencing in his case that could bring an end to his time on death row.
'It takes decades-old cases of extreme pain and throws it back into everybody's faces so we can give the criminal yet another chance. Where's my consideration?' Klaas' father Marc Klaas asked Mercury News as he slammed the law change.
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It’s not a “penalty”. It’s JUSTICE.
Another Mexican with a fake name too.
a swelling prison population has meant the state has moved to eliminate sentencing enhancements for prior convictions
Easy enough: carry out the bass turd’s sentence and free up a cell...
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You mean he is not dead yet?
The courts are doing this every day. Criminals who’ve been given sentences of life in prison are being released. This is why I now believe in the death penalty. Life sentences are a sham.
a swelling prison population ,
This points to not enough executions and not in a timely matter.
Exactly. Why is this scumbag still alive? This happened 30 plus years ago, and he should have been dead for 30 years already.
Mrs L was house sitting right down the road from where they found her body.
She still shakes when she thinks about it.
L
This occurred just after I moved to San Francisco, regularly went up to Anderson Valley and drove by a little makeshift memorial folks had set up where Pollys body was found. Sad that this guy is still living, this was one case you expected justice to prevail even in San Francisco.
She got interviewed by the FBI about it. She was alone in that house at the time he dumped that poor girls body.
Were I Mr. Klaas I’d not voice a single objection to his release. In fact I’d encourage it. I’d beg the judge to let him go.
L
Yes, “Death Row” should be 3 people standing in a line in front of the gallows, waiting their turn. (followed by 300 more)
This guy should have been terminated in 1993.
Death penalty should mean exactly that.
Our entire system of courts and justice needs a complete overhaul.
Life sentences have always had the potential of allowing for release of the criminal, who can then pursue their opportunistic need to murder once again.
All the liberal doctrine being spouted and pursued by the talking heads in charge makes me feel like we are living in the nightmare of the 1960s & 1970s where all this “feel good” compassionate illogical “unkind kindness” became a fashionable “better than thou” elitist soul apparel. They deny logic because of the misunderstanding of the words “ judge not lest ye be judged” which means to judge well, judge logically, judge kindly, use reason in your judgement and or discernments. It does not mean withhold judgement and only judge and condemn those who do “judge well.” The wording is the source of the confusion, because of the use of the archaic word “lest”. It is better stated as “judge as ye would (or should) be judged.” Or “judge not because you fear being judged” etc.
Just like Manson, when the death penalty was eliminated sentences were changed to life.
have to make room for the J6 protesters!
HUH, he got a death sentence...30 YEARS AGO AND HE’S STILL ALIVE???
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