Facts of the Crime:
Life for five-month-old Tyler Ransom had barely begun when he was violently shaken to death by his mother's live-in boyfriend, Frank Jay Alvarez, in 1994. Dylan Vincent was a diminutive four-year-old in 1996 when he was beaten to death by Alvarez. Friends and family described him as sweet and quiet.
Alvarez was sentenced to death in Kern County on June 28, 2000.
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