California convict in Polly Klaas' murder seeks death sentence recall as girl's family warns of slippery slope
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The California suspect in Polly Klaas' 1993 murder is seeking to overturn his death-penalty sentence under Gov. Gavin Newsom's 2019 decision to halt the death penalty.
"On Aug. 5, 1996, Richard Allen Davis was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murdering my 12-year-old daughter Polly Klaas, with the intent to commit lewd acts upon her," Polly's father, Marc Klaas, said in an April 4 statement. "At 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 1, 1993, Davis invaded a slumber party at the home Polly shared with her mother in Petaluma, California, where he bound, tied, and blindfolded Polly’s two friends before kidnapping her at knifepoint." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
Two months later, Klaas' family learned that Davis "murdered Polly and discarded her body on top of a trash pile within hours of abducting her."
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