STATE : Killer’s Death Sentence Overturned
- Share via
SAN FRANCISCO — The state Supreme Court today unanimously reversed the death sentence of a San Bernardino County man for the 1979 murder and robbery of a Yucca Valley couple.
The court upheld the murder convictions of Richard William Garrison but overturned his death sentence because jurors were told by the trial judge that if they recommended a sentence of life without parole, the alternative to the death penalty, the governor could make Garrison eligible for parole.
More to Read
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
