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    David Lynn Simonsen - Oregon


    David Lynn Simonsen


    Facts of the Crime:

    Simonsen and co-defendant Jeffery Williams were sentenced to death for the September 1, 1988 murders of German tourists Una Tuxen and Katrin Reith.

    Simonsen was sentenced to death on February 24, 1989.

    For more on Williams, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...egon-Death-Row

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    On August 12, 1999, Simonsen's death sentence was upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court on direct appeal.

    http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/S43487.htm

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    On July 29, 2015, Simonsen filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/or...cv01426/122949

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    Death penalty no longer on the table for convicted murderer

    By Robert Desaulniers
    KEZI News

    COQUILLE, Ore. -- A man convicted of rape and aggravated murder is no longer facing the death penalty because of changed sentencing laws, the Coos County district attorney said.

    The district attorney reports that in September of 1988, Jeffrey Ray Williams and David Lynn Simonsen raped and murdered two German citizens. Both victims were shot with a shotgun. Both defendants were convicted of rape and aggravated murder and received the death sentence because both victims had been killed in the same incident.

    Jeffrey Ray Williams died in prison of natural causes in September of 2020. Simonsen has been appealing his death sentence and remains in prison.

    In 2019, the Oregon Legislature changed the definition of aggravated murder. The sentence no longer includes the murder of two or more people at once. Such murders are now classified as first-degree murder, for which the death penalty is not available. The bill that amended the definition of aggravated murder also made the change retroactive for any case that was sent back to the trial court. On October 7, 2021, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that the change would also apply to any person who has a death sentence.

    Due to the change in the law, Simonsen’s death sentence was vacated on May 20 by the Marion County Circuit Court. He will be resentenced without the death penalty as an option on June 13.

    https://www.kezi.com/news/death-pena...a7efa4799.html
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    Simonsen was resentenced to life:

    https://docpub.state.or.us/OOS/searchCriteria.jsf

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