The State - News from April 30, 1989
John Galen Davenport, the last of four Orange County men to be retried after the state Supreme Court reversed their death sentences, has been sentenced to death again. Davenport, 34, of Tustin was convicted eight years ago of the March 27, 1980, murder of Gayle Ann Lingle, 30, in a Fullerton field. She had been stabbed more than a dozen times and was found impaled on a 4-foot wooden stake. The state Supreme Court under Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird upheld Davenport’s conviction but ordered a new death penalty trial, ruling that errors had been made by the trial judge and the prosecutor.
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