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    Richard Dean Davis - Missouri


    Marsha Spicer




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    Convicted and sentenced to death in August 2008 of first-degree murder, kidnapping, rape, sodomy, and assault in the May 2006 slaying of 41-year-old Marsha Spicer. The jury also found him guilty of kidnapping, rape, sodomy and assault in an attack a month earlier on 36-year-old Michelle Huff-Ricci. Davis' girlfriend, Dena Riley, is shown on videotapes participating in the sexual assault on Spicer and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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    August 6, 2008

    INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A man convicted of murder in the videotaped sexual torture and killing of an Independence woman has been sentenced to death.

    A Jackson County jury deliberated for less than two hours Tuesday before giving the death sentence to 44-year-old Richard D. Davis of Independence.

    Davis was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder, kidnapping, rape, sodomy, and assault in the May 2006 slaying of 41-year-old Marsha Spicer. The jury also found him guilty of kidnapping, rape, sodomy and assault in an attack a month earlier on 36-year-old Michelle Huff-Ricci.

    Davis' girlfriend, Dena Riley, is shown on videotapes participating in the sexual assault on Spicer and is scheduled for trial next year in Spicer's killing.

    And both are charged with capital murder in neighboring Clay County, where Huff-Ricci's charred remains were found in April 2006.

    The sexual attacks on both women were recorded on videotapes that turned up in Davis's apartment and became key evidence in the trial.

    Over his lawyers' objections, Davis took the stand Tuesday to tell the jury he was sorry for what he did to his victims, including Spicer, Huff-Ricci, a 5-year-old girl he is accused of raping and sodomizing and a woman he was convicted of raping 20 years ago.

    Davis's lawyers contended throughout the penalty phase of the trial that he had been shaped largely through a childhood filled with physical and sexual abuse.

    Defense attorney Tom Jacquinot said Davis became "sexually sick" at a young age. Jacquinot also alluded to sexual abuse suffered by Davis' siblings.

    Davis was able to overcome drug addition, Jacquinot said, "but the sexual past, Rick never could face." Davis expanded on that history during nearly an hour on the stand Tuesday, describing violent and sexual acts by his stepfather and a neighbor.

    But Jackson County Assistant Prosecutor Tom Hunt said Davis had shown no mercy to people he had victimized. There is a place for mercy, Hunt said, but Davis did not deserve it.

    http://www.bnd.com/news/state/story/422424.html

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    October 12, 2008

    Mo. man gets death sentence in taped sex killing

    In Independence, a suburban Kansas City man who videotaped the death of a woman he suffocated during sex has been sentenced to death.

    Richard Davis was sentenced Friday for killing 41-year-old Marsha Spicer in May 2006. A jury convicted the 44-year-old Davis of 1st-degree murder in July.

    Davis received life sentences on more than 20 other charges.

    He was also previously found guilty in the sexual attack of a 36-year-old woman in April 2006 and is charged with capital murder in her death.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    Mo. Death Penalty Upheld For Taped Sex Killing

    The death sentence stands for a suburban Kansas City man convicted in the videotaped sexual torture and slaying of a woman.

    On Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld the sentence given to Richard Davis for the 2006 killing of Marsha Spicer at his Independence apartment.

    The Kansas City Star reported that Judge Laura Denvir Stith wrote that the crime was "unspeakable" and described the evidence against Davis as "overwhelming."

    Prosecutors have said Davis and his girlfriend, Dena Riley, videotaped themselves assaulting Spicer to fulfill Davis' violent sexual fantasies. Spicer's body was found in a shallow grave in Lafayette County.

    Riley previously pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

    http://www.kctv5.com/news/24093019/detail.html

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    http://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=39821

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Davis' petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis was DENIED.

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    Missouri man behind videotaped rapes and murders challenges death penalty

    The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments today from a man sentenced to death, who with his girlfriend brutally raped, tortured, and killed two women and videotaped the attacks.

    Richard Davis was convicted of first-degree murder and multiple counts of assault, rape, and sodomy, for the May 2006 attack on Marsha Spicer of Independence. His then girlfriend, Dena Riley, is serving life without parole after taking a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. Both also pleaded guilty to a similar attack on Michelle Huff-Ricci of Kansas City. The attacks of both women were videotaped.

    Davis claims his attorneys were ineffective to the point of violating his constitutional rights. He says a psychiatrist should have been called to testify about him having bipolar disorder, and having been prescribed a psychotropic medication that should have been taken with a mood stabilizer. He also says a psychologist should have testified about abuse he suffered as a child. He’s asking the court to throw out his death sentence and give him a new trial or penalty phase.

    The Court has previously upheld his death sentence. Riley is serving life in the state prison at Chillicothe.

    Once the court hears those arguments, it could consider the case for any length of time before issuing a decision.

    http://www.missourinet.com/2015/10/2...death-penalty/

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    Missouri High Court Upholds Death Penalty in Torture Killing

    The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Tuesday for a man who killed two women in 2006 after videotaped sexual torture, rejecting his claims that he received ineffective counsel during his trial for the murder that sent him to death row.

    The state's high court unanimously rejected Richard Davis' attempt to throw out his conviction for the suffocation of Marsha Spicer at Davis' suburban Kansas City apartment. Davis, 51, and his then-girlfriend, Dena Riley, 49, later pleaded guilty to murder and other charges linked to the killing of 36-year-old Michelle Huff-Ricci. Riley, who already had admitted in court her role in Spicer's death, is serving multiple life sentences.

    Prosecutors have said Riley and Davis videotaped themselves assaulting the two women to fulfill the violent sexual fantasies of Davis, whose criminal history included a 1987 rape for which he spent nearly 18 years in prison.

    The nude body of Spicer, 41, was found by a fisherman in a shallow grave in Lafayette County.

    Authorities said that after Davis and Riley raped and tortured Huff-Ricci, they devised a plan to kill her because she knew where they lived and they feared she would contact police.

    Davis tried unsuccessfully to strangle Huff-Ricci with a rope in Clay County woods, then covered her mouth and nose to suffocate her before leaving her nude, according to court records. The next day, Davis and Riley returned to that site, doused Huff-Ricci with lighter fluid and covered her with brush and ignited it.

    In the appeal decided Tuesday, Davis' pushed to have his convictions and death sentence in Spicer's case thrown out, claiming his trial attorneys failed to press he was not mentally competent for the proceedings, insisting he was bipolar.

    But the high court found that Davis did not cooperate with his defense team or the mental health experts retained to evaluate him, and that he failed to demonstrate he would have been found incompetent to stand trial.

    Riley also is serving a federal life sentence in Kansas for kidnapping a 5-year-old southeastern Kansas girl during the eight days she and Davis were on the run before their capture in southwestern Missouri. Authorities have said the child had injuries consistent with sexual abuse.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/m...lling-38174323
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    On May 24, 2016, Davis filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/mi...cv08000/128146
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    On August 30, 2019, Davis's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...8000/128146/71
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Will he be after Deck and Barton? I know he was denied his federal appeals. So now it’s to the circuit court for him.

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