North Carolina's Supreme Court upholds a death sentence for the convicted murderer of a 4-year-old
The North Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of a man found by a jury to have abused and tortu...
The North Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of a man found by a jury to have abused and tortured his then-girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter. RALEIGH, N.C. () — The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld on Friday the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of a man found by a jury to have abused and tortured his then-girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter. In a 6-1 ruling, the state's highest court kept in place the conviction of and punishment for Jonathan Douglas Richardson in the July 2010 death of Teghan Skiba.