Facts of the Crime:
Sentenced to death on November 8, 1995 in Los Angeles County for the September 15, 1993 first-degree murder of 19-year-old Sara Weir while he was in the course of raping and robbing her. After the penalty phase, the jury recommended the death sentence and the court imposed that sentence. The evidence showed that Kelly stabbed Sara to death with a pair of scissors in his girlfriend’s apartment.
Several days after the killing, Kelly’s girlfriend’s ten-year-old son discovered the body, nude and wrapped in a blanket, under his bed. A few days before he killed Sara, Kelly raped another woman in the same apartment, using the same scissors to threaten her. Later he assaulted his girlfriend in the same apartment. The prosecution also presented evidence that Kelly raped three other women in previous years, some of whom he also robbed.
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