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Richard Allen Davis is a walking, talking poster boy for the death penalty.
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The very zenith of evil. No one will weep when — and if — the 69-year-old child killer gets the big adios.
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Fittingly, his home is on death row at the notorious San Quentin Prison — for now. Remember, he’s in California where hope springs eternal for killers and criminals of all stripes.
Davis now believes his death sentence should be overturned.
And who is Richard Allen Davis? He broke into a girls’ slumber party in 1993, blindfolding three and raping and murdering a fourth.
She was Polly Klaas and she was taken from her own home as her mother and sister slept. Hours later, the 12-year-old was dead at the hands of Davis in the suburbs of San Diego.
Davis’ jarring and violent criminal history punched his ticket: Death Row. Just months before he killed Polly Klaas he had been sprung from kidnapping another woman.
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The sickening crime led the Golden State to get tough on killers like Davis. But because of woke DAs, California has moved to eliminate the sentencing enhancements that put Davis on an express train to the green room.
Now, the child killer is arguing that he should get a pass on lethal injection, too. Davis wants a new sentencing hearing.
“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 told the San Jose Mercury-News.
The end came for Davis when his neighbour found red children’s knitted tights, a sweatshirt and a piece of white silky cloth, which matched the binding used on the other girls. He was arrested two days later and copped to the crime.
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He then led detectives to Polly’s body, hidden under a piece of plywood in a ditch.
When the sentence of death was delivered to Davis after his 1996 trial, he offered up the middle finger to jurors.
But California is nothing if not hyper-woke and each successive governor has made it increasingly difficult to thin out the state’s bursting death rows. Current Gov. Gavin Newsom has put executions on ice.
The state hasn’t executed anyone since Jan. 17, 2006, when multiple killer Clarence Ray Allen, 76, was bid sayonara on his journey to hell. His was one of only 13 executions in California after 1972.
Davis’ lawyers said in February he is entitled to a full resentencing. After all, in the Klaas sentencing his four previous violent convictions were taken into consideration.
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Prosecutors and even the politician who introduced the legislation are saying, no way, to Richard Allen Davis.
“We had every expectation that the sentence of death recommended by the jury and imposed by Judge Thomas Hastings would keep him segregated from society for the rest of his life,” Klaas’ father said.
“We could not have been more wrong!”
Marc Klaas sadly sounds like a lot of Canadian parents whose children have been murdered. When they hear “life sentence” it would be fair to assume that the monster responsible for the death of their loved one will never be heard from again.
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: “There are no second acts in American lives.” That would likely be true in Canada, as well.
Unless, of course, you’re a cold-blooded killer. In California and Canada, not only is there a second act but sometimes, a third, a fourth and a fifth.
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