Posted on 02/04/2019 1:39:09 PM PST by onyx
(KGTV) - The California Supreme Court Monday upheld the conviction and death sentence for David Westerfield, the man found guilty of killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam in 2002.
Young Danielle was reported missing from her Sabre Springs home on Feb. 2, 2002, and her disappearance led to a search that spanned all of San Diego County.
Investigators gathered enough evidence to arrest Westerfield, a neighbor of Danielle and her family, for her disappearance and death on Feb. 22.
Five days later, Danielle’s badly decomposed body was found along Dehesa Road in Harbison Canyon.
In August 2002, Westerfield was found guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child porn possession. He was sentenced to death and is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison in Northern California.
On Monday, the court ruled that Westerfield’s sentence will remain despite his legal team’s request for a new trial and opposition to the state’s death penalty law.
Westerfield's legal team can ask that the U.S. Supreme Court review the state court's decision.
(Excerpt) Read more at 10news.com ...
I’d like to kill his ass yesterday if that were possible.
Photos and video at link.
I’d love to see Westerfield executed.
California? Death penalty? Pfft!
California has no death penalty because the appeals will go on for ever and no governor will ever permit the death on his watch
I’m not surprised at a member of a non-protected Male pictured.
Same here.
That’s a shameful fact. 740 and counting.
17 years and many more to go on death row.
I wonder how many die on death row, not due to execution, but of old age waiting and appealing to a higher court and all that???
Correct.
Westerfield is one of 740 and counting.
No mention of her MOTHER and FATHER who were either drunk or high (or both), in and out of their house for a screw or up at a swingers party up and down the street with their door(s) wide open...THATS what the adults were doing. Westerfield knew this and made his move.
It was the parents fault! Had they remained faithful and sober, they would have a beautiful daughter and possibly grandchildren. ....
...but California....
“The only thing more cruel and unusual about the death penalty are the appeals.” — El Rushbo
Currently, 740 await “execution,” and all meet their demise by natural death or whenever we’re lucky, by the hands of another prisoner, but that’s really rare, given that death row inmates are housed separately and taken to shower all by themselves.
This piece of crap is STILL alive?? Figures, it is California after all..heck Polly Klaas’s killer is still breathing, and we the taxpayers are paying for his meals and big screen TV
I thought this was that case. Of course, it’s off-limits to tell the truth about what caused this murder.
Read somewhere that Scott Peterson is his next door cell neighbor on Death Row.
Lindbergh’s son’s murderer was executed in under 2 years, including all appeals, from arrest to last rites. Progressives have taken us backwards in many ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping
Gayvin Newsome will probably want to mentor Westerfield with conjugal visits.
Another killer who lived longer on Death Row that his victim did on Planet Earth.
The death sentence, as applied today, is a hollow joke.
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