- The Ultimate Court docket in North Carolina has determined not to overturn the conviction and dying sentence of a person who sexually abused, tortured, and murdered a 4-year-old lady below his care.
- In 2010, Jonathan Douglas Richardson killed Teghan Skiba whilst her mom, Richardson’s then-girlfriend, was once touring for Military Reserve coaching.
- Richardson is amongst greater than 100 folks sentenced to capital punishment in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Ultimate Court docket upheld on Friday the first-degree homicide conviction and dying sentence of a person discovered by means of a jury to have abused and tortured his then-girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter.
In a 6-1 ruling, the state’s very best courtroom saved in position the conviction of and punishment for Jonathan Douglas Richardson within the July 2010 dying of Teghan Skiba.
Prosecutors all over his 2014 trial mentioned that Richardson killed the woman whilst she was once in his take care of 10 days when the woman’s mom went to New Mexico for Military Reserve coaching.
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North Carolina guy Jonathan Douglas Richardson killed a 4-year-old lady in July 2010. The state Ultimate Court docket has determined not to overturn his conviction and dying sentence.
Investigators accused Richardson, who was once dwelling in an outbuilding at the back of his grandparents’ house in Johnston County on the time of the dying, of shaking the woman violently and hitting her head towards one thing. An post-mortem made up our minds the reason for her dying was once blunt power trauma to the top.
The woman’s frame contained a large number of “lacerations, puncture wounds, burns, chunk marks and bruising” and proof of sexual abuse, in keeping with the existing opinion written by means of Affiliate Justice Michael Morgan. The jury additionally discovered Richardson accountable on kidnapping, sexual offense with a kid and kid abuse counts.
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“We conclude that defendant won a good trial and capital sentencing continuing freed from prejudicial error and that the dying sentence beneficial by means of the jury and imposed by means of the trial courtroom isn’t over the top or disproportionate,” Morgan wrote in his opinion, which coated greater than 180 pages.
Affiliate Justice Anita Earls wrote a dissenting opinion, pronouncing whilst she affirmed the conviction, a brand new sentencing listening to was once wanted as a result of “the trial courtroom dedicated each structural error and allowed the State to give unfairly prejudicial proof.”
Richardson, now 34, is amongst greater than 130 folks on North Carolina’s dying row. The state ultimate performed an execution in 2006.
