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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Geez -- every one of us has that kind of death sentence.
In my mind he should be. Why has it taken over 20 years, just to get to this point?
He has been allowed to live these past thirty years while a child has been lying in her grave. That’s the problem.
Why is he still alive?
They did it for the Manson family.
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