On a summer day in 1996, Marc Klaas sat in a San Jose courtroom and clutched the hands of his family as a clerk read aloud the guilty verdict that would eventually place his 12-year-old daughter Polly’s killer on death row. When the man who had fatally strangled Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from a sleepover, Richard Allen Davis, learned of his fate, he turned to the courtroom with his shirt hanging out of his belt, and made an obscene gesture to the room.
His daughter was abducted during a sleepover and killed. He is among families grappling with Newsom’s death row commutation | CNN
In 1993, 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted from a sleepover and killed. Her killer is among 548 prisoners on California’s death row whose sentences Gov. Gavin Newsom has moved to commute. Polly’s father says the decision felt like “a shiv in my back.”
Marc Klaas stands for a portrait outside Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, California, on May 31, 2024.
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