One Down

Calif. man gets death sentence for killing girl
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A judge Friday formally sentenced to death the man who kidnapped and murdered 5-year-old Samantha Runnion in a case that led to the expansion of abduction alerts on electronic billboards along state freeways…
…Avila snatched the kicking and screaming girl* as she played outside her Stanton home. Her nude body was found the next day about 50 miles away, left on the ground as if it had been posed. Authorities said she had been sexually assaulted and suffocated.

*The injustice of it all is that he gets to go quietly.

2 Responses to “One Down”

1. Ken Summers says:

   July 22, 2005 at 4:21 pm

   In California, he’s more likely to die of old age on Death Row. But one can always hope.

2. Nightfly says:

   July 22, 2005 at 4:56 pm

   Hang him high. Then pose his body somewhere.