A man charged with double murder in 1985 was resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after his intellectual disability deemed him ineligible for the death penalty. “The death penalty has been shown to not deter crime, has a history of racial bias, and is fiscally irresponsible,” District Attorney Gascón said in an Aug. 31 statement. “The death sentence imposed against this intellectually disabled person over 30 years ago has been corrected with a sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.” Michelle Boyd, an 18-year-old UCLA freshman, and Brain Harris, a 20-year-old sophomore attending Cal State Northridge were kidnapped in Westwood on Sept. 30, 1985, when Stanley Bernard Davis carjacked and murdered them. The two Southern California college students were found shot in the head in a field on Mulholland Dr. The jury found Davis guilty of murder, robbery, and kidnapping of the students, and he was …
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