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Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California's "three-strikes law" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators.
Sep 22, 2023 · Richard Allen Davis is an American convicted murderer who was found guilty in the October 1993 abduction and murder of a 12-year-old from her maternal home in Petaluma, California.
May 31, 2024 · A California judge will consider whether to overturn the death sentence against Richard Allen Davis, who in 1993 killed 12-year-old Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from her bedroom in a...
Oct 17, 2023 · Richard Allen Davis was charged with murder with special circumstances, and he pleaded not guilty despite his prior confession to the authorities. The jury found him guilty of first-degree murder, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, and attempting to perform a lewd act (via Stanford).
Richard Allen Davis, who is locked up at San Quentin State Prison, was sentenced to death for abducting 12-year-old Polly — now known as the first missing girl on the internet — from a...
On October 1, 1993, at age twelve, she was kidnapped at knifepoint during a slumber party at her mother's home in Petaluma, California, and strangled to death. Richard Allen Davis was convicted of her murder in 1996 and sentenced to death. [1]
Sep 22, 2023 · Richard Allen Davis, the prime suspect in the kidnapping of Polly Klaas, enters a Mendocino, Calif., courtroom, in Ukiah, to be arraigned on drunken driving charges, Dec. 2, 1993.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A California judge on Friday denied a petition to recall the death sentence against Richard Allen Davis, who in 1993 killed 12-year-old Polly Klaas after kidnapping her...
Apr 4, 2024 · Richard Allen Davis, one of California’s most notorious convicted killers, whose 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas inspired a crackdown on serial offenders, is...
Apr 5, 2024 · Lawyers for one of California's most infamous convicted killers, Richard Allen Davis, asked a judge in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Friday to overturn his death sentence following the 1993...
