One of California's most infamous convicted killers, Richard Allen Davis, plans to ask a judge in Santa Clara County Suprerior Court on Friday to overturn his death sentence following the 1993 murder and kidnap of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.
One of California's most infamous convicted killers, Richard Allen Davis, plans to ask a judge in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Friday to overturn his death sentence following the 1993 murder and kidnap of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.Davis, 69, was convicted in 1996 after a jury found that he had taken the girl from her mother's Petaluma home during a slumber party with two friends.
He still has another appeal pending.Outrage over Polly’s murder pushed California to embrace tough-on-crime laws, including the "three strikes you’re out" laws calling for life sentences for repeat violent felons.Years later, however, California’s prisons because to fill up and the state had to respond to federal court orders to address overcrowding.Politicians including then Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.
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